NUMBER OF VISITS TO YEREVAN POLYCLINICS INCREASES IN FIRST HALF YEAR
Noyan Tapan
Aug 14 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, NOYAN TAPAN. In the first half year, compared with
the same period of time of 2005, the number of inhabitants’ visits
to Yerevan polyclinics at district therapeutists’ incresed 29.9%,
at pediatricians’ 20%, and other specialists’ 49.2%. The number of
laboratory-apparatus examinations grew 46.4% during the same period
of time. As Armen Soghoyan, the Chief of the Health Care and Social
Security Department of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office informed at the
August 14 press conference, the increase of the number of visits is
provided by free medical service in polyclinics. A.Soghoyan mentioned
that free and at a discount allocation of medicine to inhabitation
continues.
According to him, very often citizens want to get the medicine they
want. But, according to the order, citizens are freely given only
medicine prescribed by the doctor. It was also mentioned that 77318
calls were fixed at the Yerevan "Ambulance" CJSC in the first half
year, what is more by 4875 compared with the same period of time of
the previous year.