Tuesday, December 7 2021 10:57

ArmInfo.The parliamentary majority "Civil Contract" on December 7 refused to add to the agenda of the plenary session the additions to the law "On military service  and the status of a serviceman", proposed by MP of the "I have honor"  faction Taguhi Tovmasyan. The author proposes, within the framework  of state-guaranteed medical care and services, priority and free of  charge examination, examination of the state of health and treatment  of military personnel.

Earlier, on November 30, the NA Standing Committee on Defense and  Security considered the bill in the first reading. The government,  represented by head of the Ministry of Health, Anahit Avanesyan, gave  a negative conclusion. Avanesyan noted that, in accordance with the  requirements of the April 2018 government decree, military medical  examination of military personnel is carried out by a departmental  hospital and central military medical commissions, and such  examination is not carried out in civilian medical institutions.  Military personnel, as well as their family members, receive  high-quality medical care at the expense of the RA state budget, and  also benefit from the medical direction of the social package.  The  executive branch proposed to leave the corresponding article of the  current law unchanged. Co- rapporteur, member of the commission and  MP from the Civil Contract Vilen Gabrielyan, in turn, noted that the  project violates the principle of equal treatment of patients. As a  result, the initiative did not receive a positive opinion from the  relevant commission.

Today, after Taguhi Tovmasyan insisted on the reasonableness of  including the issue on the agenda of the plenary session and  implementing the initiative she proposed, former Minister of Health  of the Republic of Armenia, now MP from the Civil Contract Arsen  Torosyan stated that the project is purely populist, since back in  2019, by an appropriate decision of the government, servicemen  receive all the need for medical care when necessary and on an  emergency basis.

No matter how hard the counterparts, the ruling party and the  parliamentary opposition, tried to convince each other, as a result,  each of them remained unconvinced, and the bill did not receive the  required number of votes necessary for its discussion in the  framework of the plenary session of the National Assembly.