Read Ara Babloyan’s response to the press publications about in-patient care conditions in pediatric clinics.

“Yes, yesterday we participated in the discussion that took place at the Ministry of Health on the in-patient care conditions in pediatric clinics. 

It was a multifaceted discussion between healthcare organizers, heads of large pediatric healthcare organizations and healthcare specialists. We, as organizers of children’s healthcare and heads of medical centers, support creating mechanisms that will prevent patients from staying at hospitals unreasonably long and will benefit the effectiveness of the medical process. But we also need to protect the rights of patients, who need long-term hospitalization; they should not be denied in the influence of the general approach. 

We are glad that everyone at the discussion shared this opinion and we hope that the optimal mechanism, which should be finalized by the MoH, will combine the ideas of preventing the unnecessary long stay at in-patient care units and protecting the rights of patients in need of long-term hospitalization.