ArmInfo. Acting Minister of Healthcare of Armenia Levon Altunyan has not decided yet whether he will remain in the staff of a new Government or not. ""I will return  to this issue after I receive the relevant proposal," he told  reporters on May 11 after the meeting of the Armenian government.

ArmInfo. The withdrawal from the Republican Party in a difficult time for the party is a betrayal. Acting Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia Levon Altunyan  expressed opinion in an interview with journalists after the government session..

ArmInfo. Today, on April 3, one of the victims of the explosion of an oxygen cylinder in a fast food cafe BurgerKing was discharged from the hospital.

ArmInfo. In 2018-2019 years the cost of a screening program for the early detection of phenylketonuria in newborns in Artsakh is assumed by the Yerevan Medical Center "Arabkir". This is stated in the Memorandum of Understanding signed on March 17 in Stepanakert by the Ministers of Health of Armenia and Artsakh Levon Altunyan and Karine Atayan.

ArmInfo. With the purpose of revealing the expediency of the activity of the "Armenicum" Clinical Center, increasing the effectiveness of patient treatment, and  stimulating the international recognition of the "Armenicum" drug, a working group was created with the participation of specialists from the Ministry of Health, leading physicians, representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the center itself.

ArmInfo. The Armenian government partly or completely subsidizes the costs associated with connecting to the e-health system of medical institutions that provide free and reduced medical services within the framework of the state order. The resolution on allocation of 203.1 million drams from the reserve fund for payment compensation was approved at a government meeting on March 15.

ArmInfo.Armenia will start vaccination of girls at the age of 13 from virus papilla  December 2017 to prevent cervical cancer. The decision on this was taken at a  government meeting on November 9.As the Armenian Minister of Health Levon Altunyan stated, starting from the second decade of December of this year to the middle of 2018, vaccination will be carried out.

ArmInfo.Armenia will increase funding for heart operations by 194.5 million. The corresponding decision was made at a government meeting on November 9.

ArmInfo. Minister of Health of Armenia Levon Altunyan advocates the introduction of paid "first aid".

ArmInfo.. Minister of Health Levon Altunyan received the chief adviser on special issues of the minister and the Ministry of Health of Israel, Professor Shaul  Yatsivin and senior scientific officer of the Medical Specialization  Licensing Department of the Ministry of Health of Israel Avital  Wiener Aurman.

ArmInfo.Levon Altunyan, the  Minister of Healthcare of Armenia, spoke in favor of increasing the remuneration of doctors from the general "white cash desk" of medical institutions. At the meeting with the representatives of the health protection system of the Ararat region, the minister noted the importance not only of ensuring the quality of medical services, but also of resolving the issue of transferring money flows from the shadow turnover to the "white cash desk", as doctors should receive a larger percentage from the health facility.

ArmInfo.The state of the wounded on July 14 in Hurghada of the Armenian citizen has improved. This was announced yesterday by the head of general and thoracic  surgery clinic of Erebuni Medical Center, Professor Artak Hovhannisyan, who returned from Egypt during a meeting with the Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia Levon Altunyan. 

ArmInfo.Armenian Minister of Healthcare Levon Altunyan in Prague with his colleague  Miroslav Ludwik discussed the prospects for expanding Armenian-Czech  cooperation in the field of healthcare, in particular, in the  development of e-health and medical tourism market.

ArmInfo.The Red Crescent Society of Iran intends to open a clinic in Armenia. The proposal was voiced during the meeting of the Armenian Minister of Health Levon Altunyan with the delegation of the Red Crescent of the Islamic Republic of  Iran headed by the chairman of the society Seyed Amri Mohsen Zia and the Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Seed Kazem Sadjadi.

ArmInfo. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan issued orders to reappoint another four Ministers 

ArmInfo. Within the framework of reforms implemented in the field of health care and optimization the Health Ministry developed an actions plan, assuming first enlargement of medical centers of the Republic . This was stated by Levon Altounyan, the health Minister, at a press conference in Yerevan. 

ArmInfo. One of the priorities of the Armenian government is the establishment of an institute of medical ombudsman in Armenia.

ArmInfo. In Armenia, the system of medical insurance will be gradually introduced. On April 21, Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan was informed about this during  his visit to the Ministry of Health, where a meeting with the  leadership of the ministry took place. According to the press service  of the government, Karen Karapetyan was presented the upcoming steps  and mechanisms for introducing the system of medical insurance. It is  planned, in particular, at the first stage to introduce a new system  for 100 thousand civil servants, for whom a comprehensive package has  been developed.  Public servants will have the opportunity to  determine the medical institutions themselves, there will be no  records for appointments to doctors. A package for 612 thousand  socially disadvantaged groups of people and persons with disabilities  will be submitted to the government in July this year.

ArmInfo. Works on creating radioisotope-processing Center in Armenia are to be finished. The first, diagnostic component of the project is finished, all the  facilities are practically installed, Armenian Health Care Minister Levon Altunyan stated.

ArmInfo.In 2017 the priorities of the Armenian Health Ministry will be to ensure high quality and affordability of medical services, improve the government-guaranteed mechanisms, introduce international standards in pharmacy and  e-health system, form a medical ombudsman's institution, use the  foreign practices in registering patients, as well as to propagate a  healthy lifestyle, Armenian Health Minister Levon Altunyan said when  discussing the progress report of 2016 and the priorities for 2017.