By empty (10/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Armenian government approved a plan on 30 September to privatize the country\'s largest hospital, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. The plan calls for the privatization of the Armenia Republican Medical Center in a 135 million-dram ($267,000) sale without a competitive tender. The move is fairly controversial, as the privatization of Armenia\'s health-care facilities were suspended in August 2003 following the objections of parliamentary speaker Artur Baghdasarian.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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