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    HOSPITAL FEES TO BE CUT IN HALF IN GYUMRI

    tert.am
    12.11.12

    Minister of Health Derenik Dumanyan has called for cutting the medical
    expenses in half in Armenia's second largest city.

    Private hospitals are entitled to increase the prices for surgical
    interventions and other services, but given that such fees are
    inaccessible to the residents of Gyumri, the minister of health has
    issued a decree for reducing the expenses by 50%, a spokesperson for
    the Ministry, Anahit Harutyunyan, told Tert.am.

    "But as regards the government funding to hospitals, no changes
    were made in those procedures. It is now up to private hospitals to
    decide whether to impose higher prices on plastic surgeries and other
    interventions. It's their right, so we cannot interfere with their
    price policies," she said.

    The press earlier said that the prices for surgeries surged in several
    medical institutions based on a Health Ministry decree. Commenting
    on the report, Harutyunyan said that the Ministry has only approved
    the list of cases requiring free medical assistance, as well as the
    maximum and minimum costs of paid services.

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