Free healthcare in Armenia a new reality?
I was so happy to read this news... so many people really didn't get treatment because they couldn't afford it. I really hope it keeps up and that the healthcare providers get proper compensation too - or they may just leave...
From: RFE/RL
From: RFE/RL
The Armenian government reported on Monday a sharp increase in the number of people visiting state-run policlinics since the abolition, effective from January 1, of all medical charges levied for disease prevention and non-surgical treatment.
Officials said in Yerevan alone policlinic visits this month were 47 percent up from January 2005, while the number of medical tests performed there jumped by 51 percent compared to the same period last year.
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Anecdotal evidence and witness accounts suggest that the government decision is being implemented. “I had a sore foot and went came here on January 4,” said an elderly patient at a policlinic in central Yerevan. “I also suffer from diabetes and come here to see my doctor. It’s all done for free. I have not been charged a penny.”
“They didn’t ask for money,” confirmed a middle-aged woman who just visited a gynecologist. “I am very happy with that.”
posted by Raffi K. at 3:24 PM
2 Comments:
free healthcare is of course great, but i want to ask , are the doctors working in policlinics the part of the people who needed state care? How a doctor getting 20.000 drams in policlinics and serving dozens of patients per day, can survive. is he worse than the man who he has to serve? so everything happens as always, that means bad.
free healthcare of the people is of course great idea. but i want to ask a question. isn't the doctor working in policlinics the equal citizen who also must be taken care by the state? please tell me, how a doctor who gets 20.000 drams a month, and serving dozens of free patients per day can survive, can feed his family? possibly our goverment thinks that the people who were so clever and hardworking that could study medicine must hunger. that proves one more time, that in present-day armenia worthy people are unnessecary.
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