Oxfam GB Armenia, jointly with the Economic Development and Research Center (EDRC) have analyzed the impact of the decrease in ambulatory care sector financing on Armenian population’s level of health.
As the head of EDRC program Karine Harutyunyan told a news conference in Yerevan, 2012 state budget envisages an AMD 5,3 mln cut in ambulatory sector to comprise AMD 23,9 bln. In this context, Ms. Harutyunyan noted a number of sectors in primary medical care to suffer most as a result of cutting. “In their attempt to decrease expenses, the authorities failed to consider the upsurge of prices reported in healthcare sector,” the EDRC official stressed.
EDRC CEO Gagik Torosyan, in turn, noted that the government’s financing helps little in increasing the quality of services at policlinics and other ambulatory care facilities, leaving doctors unhappy with low salaries, patients dissatisfied with treatment and the government puzzled, seeing as means allocated render no results.
The CEO urged the government to work out an individual package of social expenditures to resolve the issue.
