Obsolete Equipment: Is the Free Medical Treatment at Yerevan=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Polyclinics Worth the Risk?

19:50, March 31, 2015

Marine Madatyan, Ani Hovhannisyan

50% of all the medical equipment now being used in Yerevan polyclinics is at least 25 years old.

This troubling fact is evidenced by a list of the equipment that Hetq has received from the Yerevan Municipality. It shows that half the equipment now in use at the state run clinics was manufactured between the 1950s and the 1980s.

The situation is even worse when it comes to x-ray machines. Over 70% were built in the 1970s and 1980s. 

These Soviet leftovers periodically die off and are resuscitated. As a result, citizens are often not able to avail themselves of the free medical treatment at municipal polyclinics since the equipment isn't working.  Read more... (1037 words)

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