YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the 2003-2008 strategy of primary health protection of RA population, Armenia needs 1500-2000 family doctors. Development of family medicine is one of the important components of the credit program of healthcare system modernization costing 25.5m dollars. 7.1m dollars will be allocated for that purpose by the agreement signed by the RA government and the World Bank in 2004. 540 doctors and 530 nurses have passed retraining since 2004 up to present. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Yervand Elibekian, the Coordinator of the Family Medicine Development Component of the Office of Healthcare Programs Implementation, the majority of specialists having passed retraining works at medical offices, rural out-patient's departments, and town polyclinics. It was also mentioned that 30 rural out-patient's departments will be repaired and 20 will be built by the program's second stage having launched lately.

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