ArmInfo. Armenia needs ambulance helicopters, Health Minister Arsen Torosyan said at a press conference on Radio Liberty on Monday.
According to him, negotiations are currently underway regarding the possibility of organizing helicopter evacuation in the country. "I am determined to ensure that at least one ambulance helicopter is in Armenia in order to be able to evacuate patients not only from remote and hard-to-reach regions, but also in all cases when complex operations that can not be carried out on the ground ", the head of the Ministry of Health said. In addition, as the minister assured, soon there will be no shortage of ambulances and reanimobiles in Armenia - all regions of the republic will be provided with them. "For example, in the Armavir region there will be 7 ambulances and 2 reanimobiles, and we will review the distribution until September, without exception, they will be provided to all regions." "I guarantee this," Torosyan said. According to him, until now there was an incomprehensible regulation - for whom transportation to a medical institution from one city to another will be free of charge. This practice is now being revised - starting with the financing of individual medical centers, up to - in which cases it can be free of charge.