St. Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center Warns Ambulance Services Not to Bring Patients

According to information obtained by Armenian Times, the "St. Grigor Lusavorich" medical center in Yerevan has contacted the ambulance service, requesting that patients not be transferred there due to extreme overload and a lack of capacity to accept new patients.

In response to an inquiry from the media, the director of the "Emergency Medical Services" LLC, Taguhi Stepanyan, did not deny the report. At the same time, she noted that such requests are regularly received when there is no space in certain hospitals.

“The number of patients with chronic respiratory conditions is quite high. Patients who have chronic heart and pulmonary insufficiency. Currently, the calls we are receiving from them have increased somewhat, which is why almost all major hospitals are limiting their capacity to accept patients. It’s not that hospitals are closed all day. If there are no available beds, we are simply warned to take fewer patients. I don’t know what case you are referring to; they may have been alerted at that moment that they do not have available beds, but those same beds may become available in an hour or two, and then we can again take patients,” said Taguhi Stepanyan.