“That is absurd”
The National Assembly today discussed the executive of the 2010 Health Budget and concluded that many issues remain unsolved. Taking last year's budget into consideration, the National Assembly determined the particular health spheres that should be paid attention to. This year, the government has allocated nearly 6 percent of the total budget for healthcare, that is, 742.1 billion drams.
"There were and still are serious expectations in childbirth. Childbirth and the treatment of children up to 7 years of age was finally included in the framework of a state order regardless of a family's social status," vice-chairman of the NA standing committee on health issues Mkrtich Minasyan told "A1+".
Minasyan says one of the primary objectives is to create second-degree medical institutions in the provinces so that the people can receive their main treatment in the provinces.
Mkrtich Minasyan accepts the fact that one of the primary objectives of the health sphere is the efficient use of the state order.
"By adopting the idea of a state order, we face the issue of mechanisms that should be revised. Citizens must know which part of the treatment the government will cover and should have the chance to visit a preferred doctor."
Mr. Minasyan doesn't share the view that Armenians lack the culture of seeing a doctor. What motivates him is the fact that Armenia currently has big technologies for checking for illnesses.
Minasyan says one of the major objectives is to ensure doctors with good salaries.
In the end, Mkrtich Minasyan underlined that healthcare is the sphere in which flaws and errors are fatal and inadmissible. Touching upon the fact that a child recently underwent an operation that he shouldn't have undergone at Holy Mary medical center, Gagik Minasyan said that was absurd.
