YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, NOYAN TAPAN. In the first half year, compared with the same period of time of 2005, the number of inhabitants' visits to Yerevan polyclinics at district therapeutists' incresed 29.9%, at pediatricians' 20%, and other specialists' 49.2%. The number of laboratory-apparatus examinations grew 46.4% during the same period of time. As Armen Soghoyan, the Chief of the Health Care and Social Security Department of the Yerevan Mayor's Office informed at the August 14 press conference, the increase of the number of visits is provided by free medical service in polyclinics. A.Soghoyan mentioned that free and at a discount allocation of medicine to inhabitation continues. According to him, very often citizens want to get the medicine they want. But, according to the order, citizens are freely given only medicine prescribed by the doctor. It was also mentioned that 77318 calls were fixed at the Yerevan "Ambulance" CJSC in the first half year, what is more by 4875 compared with the same period of time of the previous year.

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