ArmInfo.During the privatization of healthcare facilities, the Armenian government will itself determine the need to maintain the profiles of these facilities. At a meeting of the parliamentary commission on economic issues on September 9, amendments to the privatization program of state property for 2017-2020 are discussed.
According to the Deputy Chairman of the RA State Property Management Committee Vardan Kostanyan, in 2017, 17 healthcare facilities were included in the privatization program at once, of which, according to the situation, 5 medical centers remain unprivatized. Given that the program is about to expire, it became necessary to amend it in order to provide the executive body with the opportunity to determine the appropriateness of maintaining the profile of these objects during the alienation process. Otherwise, these organizations will be liquidated. We are talking about the scientific center of traumatology and orthopedics, the center for the production of radioisotopes, the scientific research institute of balneology and physical medicine, the republican speleotherapeutic center and the clinic of nerves. The RA Ministry of Health considers, Vardan Kostanyan continued, that with the exception of the center for the production of radioisotopes, maintaining the profiles of other organizations is inexpedient. Moreover, from 2021, the Nervez clinic will no longer receive government orders. This year, the volume of state orders for it amounted to 127 million drams. The company itself is estimated at 164 million drams. The possibility of changing the profile of medical centers is also due to the fact that the services rendered in them are now used in other clinics. The financial condition of these clinics is deteriorating and efforts are being made to maintain them. In the near future, a new program of privatization of state property objects will be presented, in which investors will be provided with good sales conditions, including the postponement of payments.
