With the approval of Armenia's Healthcare Ministry, physicians go on taking extra payments from parents in medical providers for examining and treatment of children, press-service of Ombudsman's office reported.
In particular, last year in his annual report, Ombudsman Karen Adreasyan, touched on the omissions in the programme for the state register of children's health. According to this programme, free of charge medical service should be offered to the children under 7, whereas parents are often forced to make extra payments to certain physicians.
Andreasyan has officially informed Health Minister Derenik Dumanyan about the situation, but has not yet received an answer if these physicians were made answerable or not. "So, with the approval of the Health Ministry, physicians go on taking extra payments from parents in medical providers", - the statement by the ombudsman says.