Government to allocate additional AMD 3 billion to finance state  order for healthcare

ArmInfo. On May 16, the Armenian government decided to redistribute funds and allocate 3 billion drams  to fulfill the state order for healthcare.

As Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan noted, the funds will be  distributed as follows: 400 million - for emergency care, 500 million  - for hemodialysis services, peritoneal dialysis, 300 million - for  the treatment of oncological and hematological diseases, 1.5 billion  drams - to help needy families, 200 million - for internal organ  transplants, 100 million - for the treatment of infectious diseases.   "With these additions, we continue our commitment to increasing  access to health care for our residents," the minister said.

According to her, the number of patient requests has increased for  several reasons: an increase in the list of infrastructure and  services, medical services are becoming physically more accessible to  regional medical care centers. This increase is also associated with  the provision of additional volumes of medical care to internally  displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in turn, noted that the government  intends to introduce a comprehensive health insurance system in the  republic. "As a result of the discussions, the biggest fear is that  we may not have an idea of the volumes, and after implementation we  may find out that the load is so big that it is many times different  from what we imagined. Now, thanks to this mechanism, we understand  step by step what volume we are dealing with," he said.