Fluorography will no longer be done in Armenia

In Armenia, they decided to abandon fluorography, hospitals and polyclinics will no longer do it, the equipment will be decommissioned. On February 13, this decision was made at a meeting of the Armenian government.

According to the conclusion of the Ministry of Health, fluorographic examination does not meet the requirements of modern medicine, since it has a low diagnostic effectiveness. It is noted that in practice, in some diseases, additional X-ray or other radiation diagnostic studies are necessary.

The Ministry of Health also noted that the background radiation level of fluorographs is higher than that of new digital X-rays and MRI machines. In addition, fluorographs, which are used in medical institutions of Armenia, are mainly manufactured in the USSR. This complicates the process of servicing these devices — the enterprises that produced them no longer work.