About 8000 employees have been provided with medical insurance packages

17.03.2018

At the initiative of Yerevan Mayor, employees of the Municipality and administrative districts, personnel of the supporting organizations and municipal kindergartens, theaters, libraries and chess schools (about 8000 people) were provided with medical insurance packages. By the way, 4700 employees of community-owned kindergartens and chess schools of 12 administrative districts were involved in the program of free medical services from January of this year.
The medical package involves free preventive medical examinations once a year in multi-functional medical establishments and if necessary to get complicated operations such as cardiac surgery or eye surgery. The deputy head of Financial Department of Yerevan Municipality Hamazasp Galstyan informed that up today annually 1000 beneficiaries make use of the program on the average, and 20-25 operations are performed each of which costs more than AMD 1 million.

“this initiative of great social and health significance will be continuative. Taking into account that this medical insurance is provided by the financial means of Yerevan Municipality currently we are considering the issue of providing the employees of other municipal establishments such as music and art schools, cultural centers and sport schools with medical insurance packages. It should be noted that currently 210 of the 275 community-owned non-commercial establishments are included in the program”, said Hamazasp Galstyan.

 

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