Yerevan Municipality ready to integrate capital`s ambulance service  into national system

ArmInfo.  Yerevan City Hall has announced its readiness to integrate the capital's ambulance service into the national system. Mayor Tigran Avinyan announced this during a working meeting of the mayor's office on November 24.

Recalling that the national ambulance service was initiated by the  Ministry of Health, he noted the importance of various emergency  services responding from a single platform. "For example, a person  calls the Rescue Service or the police, and an ambulance is  dispatched immediately. And this logic should be integrated into the  overall coverage," Avinyan noted.

In this regard, the mayor also emphasized the importance of the  capital's ambulance service not being restricted in terms of serving  regional calls, and vice versa, taking into account physical  proximity or other factors. "We are ready for such integration," he  emphasized. At the same time, Avinyan noted a noticeable improvement  in the quality of work of the Yerevan Ambulance Service, citing both  recorded indicators and citizen feedback. He recalled that today the  capital's ambulance service is an organization with a profit of 168  million drams, whereas previously it was losing 140 million drams.

"I remember how at the first meetings it was said that 86% of calls  were answered; now this issue is not even discussed," the mayor  noted.

As a reminder, back in the spring of 2024, Armenian Health Minister  Anahit Avanesyan stated that a unified ambulance service was to be  operational in Armenia by January 2025. Specifically, she explained  that this need arose because, very often, an ambulance in close  proximity cannot respond to a call because it is assigned to another  medical center or another region, and therefore, the call is outside  its service area.  "We are changing the entire service principle. And  now calls will be answered based on the physical proximity of the  ambulance," Avanesyan noted.