“NURSE HAS MANY PROBLEMS TO SOLVE”
The nurses’ minimal salary is 20 thousands drams in the republic. Geghanush Stepanyan, the leader of the “Nurse Association”, said “The mission of our association is to assist socially poor nurses, for example, we organize to pass residency training under state order demand”.
According to her, this year’s monitoring results showed that 80% of the nurses get the minimal salary. The association members met with Harutyun Kushkyan, the minister of health, and presented him the main problems the nurses face. “First we discussed the salary problem with the minister,” she said.
Besides, the leader of the association said that the health problem of the nurses is also very serious, as they have to work with toxic medicine. She said that this is a very important problem which should be solved as soon as possible.
Note that the association has its branches in 5 regions of Armenia: Gegharkunik, Aragacotn, Shirak, Armavir and Ararat. The association carries out its activities since 2004.