YEREVAN, JANUARY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Volumes of medicine brought to Armenia as humanitarian aid recuded during the recent years. So, if more than 111 mln drams medicine was got from the U.S. in 2005, about 931 mln 889 thousand drams (about 25 mln U.S. dollars) medicine was got in 2006. Tatul Hakobian, the RA Deputy Minister of Health Care informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent about it. In his words, the volume of medicine being imported to Armenia grew in parallel to it: it grew during the recent 3 years about 4 mln U.S. dollars: 22.1 mln dollars medicine was imported in 2004, 26.2 mln dollars medicine was imported in 2005, and about 30 mln dollars medicine was imported in 2006. T.Hakobian also mentioned that 750 from the 3450 medicines and bioactive supplements registered in Armenia were registered in 2006. 12 organizations producing medicine and 2 organizations producing bioactive supplements function in the republic at present. In the Deputy Minister's words, 1323 licences for implementing pharmacy activity were given by the RA Health Care Ministry in the last year.

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