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On June 1, at the joint sitting of the RA NA Standing Committees on Health Care and on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs the debate of the report on RA State Budget Execution for 2022 continued. The performance of the revenues and expenditures of the health sphere was debated. The Chairs of the Committees Narek Zeynalyan and Gevorg Papoyan moderated the sitting.

As the RA Minister of Finance Vahe Hovhannisyan informed, the in the financing year the Ministry of Health implemented 12 programmes. The annual plan of the Ministry was 119 billion 696 million AMD, 142 billion 449 million AMD was allocated, and in fact 149 billion 622 million was spent, and its performance was 98.7%. In 2022, compared with 2021 the budget was 89.1%, i.e. the budget of the Ministry decreased, which is mainly conditioned by the expenditure of much bigger amounts implemented in 2021 on covid, than it was in 2022. In 2021, 27.7 billion AMD was allocated for covid treatment, meanwhile in 2022, 10 billion 845 million AMD was spent. In 2021, vaccine was also obtained, and in 2022 there were no expenditures carried out on it. During the year, there were redistributions.

The RA Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan presented the 12 programmes implemented by the Ministry and their performances, within the framework of which 51 measures were brought into life. Regarding the issue of medical aid being carried out by the state order, the Minister noted that the bids calculated on the planned and performance indicators are permanently more, than it is possible to have a share in the given year budget. “That means the financing amount is not sufficient,” Anahit Avanesyansaid. The Minister informed that the Ministry had already worked out the Insurance System Concept, and the legislative package on it will be submitted to the National Assembly soon. To the Minister’s conviction, the main issues of the sphere will find their answers as a result of the insurance system introduction.

Ananhit avanesyan answered the deputies’ question, which referred to the methodology of the medical care distributions being carried out by the state order of the medical institutions, the prices of the medical care, the efficiency of the implemented programmes, the medical care accessibility, the reconstruction and construction, the maternity and child mortality and its reasons, the decrease of birth rate, the deficit of some medicine, etc.