930 FAMILY DOCTORS AND NURSES OF SAME NUMBER TO UNDERGO TRAINING IN ARMENIA TILL 2009
Noyan Tapan
Oct 25 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 25, NOYAN TAPAN. 320 family doctors and 440 family
nurses work at present in offices of family medicine of Armenia,
rural out-patient’s clinics and urban polyclinics. Development
of family medicine is one of important components of the four-year
credit program of 25.5 mln U.S. dollars on modernization of the health
care system. 7.1 mln U.S. dollars were allocated for it according to
the agreement signed between the RA Government and the World Bank in
2004. As Samvel Hovhannisian, the Chairman of the Armenian Association
of Family Doctors informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, the program
envisages to train till 2009 other 930 doctors and nurses of same
number, correspondingly, according to 12-month and 6-month education
programs. In his words, family medicine chairs were created still
in 1998 at the Yerevan Mkhitar Heratsi State Medical University,
National Health Care Institute and Medical Fulcrum College. It was
also mentioned that work conditions of family doctors will be improved
by the program: 14 rural out-patient’s clinics will be restored and
5 ones will be built, and medical equipment and accessories will be
given to 150 out-patient’s clinics.