TSAKHKADOZOR, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Activities aimed at introduction of system of population's registration started in Armenian primary health protection system from April 1. Thanks to this each citizen will have a possibility to choose his primary health protection doctor. Within the framework of the new system residents can be registered at family doctors, therapeutists and under-aged people at pediatricians. As Gayane Gharagebakian, head of team of Health Reforming and Population's Registration of RA Ministry of Health, reported at the April 13 seminar in Tsakhkadzor, unless the citizens are registered by the end of the year, they will be deprived of the possibility of receiving free out-patient services. In her words, the system will be introduced stage by stage: from April 1 to October 1 a resident will choose his primary health protection doctor from the medical institution where he is served at present and from October 1 he can change his doctor twice a year if he wishes. Ruzanna Yuzbashian, Head of Primary Medical Assistance Department of the Ministry, said that sums allocated from state budget to the primary health protection system increase year by year. Thus, 9.3 bln drams was allocated in 2005, while 16.726 bln drams (nearly 46.5 mln USD) was allocated in 2007.

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