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FAMILY DOCTORS TO FROM NOW ON HAVE POSSIBILITY OF FUNCTIONING INDEPENDENTLY
Noyan Tapan
Apr 20 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The order of implementation of
individual and group independent practices of family doctors was
affirmed at the April 19 sitting of the RA Government. It defines
compulsory demands and conditions of implementing the above-mentioned
practice.
It was mentioned at the sitting that introduction of independent
activity of family doctors in the health care system is in keeping
with strategy of primary keeping and development of health care and
is the most important one among the main principles of the family
medicine. Creation of conditions necessary for individual and group
independent practice of family doctors and for their activity will
greatly assist final formation of the family medicine in the RA
and not only accessibility but also security of the quality of the
services in the primary circle.
As Vahan Poghosian, the Chief of the Medical Assistance Organization
Department of the RA Ministry of Health Care informed journalists
after the sitting, family doctors must be utmost independent from
the viewpoint of organization, management of financial resources and
implement their services based on the principle of free choice by
the population.
In V. Poghosian's words, family doctors had no possibility till now
to independently manage their financial resources and property. And a
family doctor from now on will be more careful and interested in the
issue of medical equipment, responsible for the quality of his service.
It was also mentioned that family doctors will freely implement their
services as it is at polyclinics as the state pays 4800 drams (about
13 U.S. dollars) annually for every person served by them.
Noyan Tapan
Apr 20 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The order of implementation of
individual and group independent practices of family doctors was
affirmed at the April 19 sitting of the RA Government. It defines
compulsory demands and conditions of implementing the above-mentioned
practice.
It was mentioned at the sitting that introduction of independent
activity of family doctors in the health care system is in keeping
with strategy of primary keeping and development of health care and
is the most important one among the main principles of the family
medicine. Creation of conditions necessary for individual and group
independent practice of family doctors and for their activity will
greatly assist final formation of the family medicine in the RA
and not only accessibility but also security of the quality of the
services in the primary circle.
As Vahan Poghosian, the Chief of the Medical Assistance Organization
Department of the RA Ministry of Health Care informed journalists
after the sitting, family doctors must be utmost independent from
the viewpoint of organization, management of financial resources and
implement their services based on the principle of free choice by
the population.
In V. Poghosian's words, family doctors had no possibility till now
to independently manage their financial resources and property. And a
family doctor from now on will be more careful and interested in the
issue of medical equipment, responsible for the quality of his service.
It was also mentioned that family doctors will freely implement their
services as it is at polyclinics as the state pays 4800 drams (about
13 U.S. dollars) annually for every person served by them.