YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. In January-November 2007, the number of population's visits to Yerevan polyclinics made 1m 785 thousand, which exceeds the index of the same period of the previous year by 7.2%. Armen Soghoyan, the Head of the Healthcare and Social Security Department of Yerevan Mayor's Office, said at the December 10 press conference. According to him, in the 11 months of this year, as compared with the same period of 2006, the number of visits to district therapeutists increased by 10%, to narrow specialists by 2.3%. The number of laboratory instrumental examinations increased by 11.2% in the same period. A. Soghoyan said that 117 314 citizens were given free of charge medicines in January-November. 25 040 patients received medical service in the above mentioned months in clinics within the jurisdiction of the Mayor's Office. 14 704 out of it was done within the framework of state order, which is more by 10%, as compared with the same period of the previous year. According to A. Soghoyan, ambulance service calls decreased by 1.5%: 141 calls were registered in January-November 2006, while this number amounted to 139 329 in the same period of this year. A. Soghoyan said that 78% Yerevan population has already chosen the doctor of primary healthcare. And 344 family doctors and 205 nurses have already passed retraining in Yerevan, within the framework of the World Bank credit program.

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