TIRANA, Jan 23/ATA/- In 2019, some 482 711 citizens have performed basic medical check-up, the Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama shared Thursday the official data compulsory Health Insurance Fund stressing that the national program has been highly praised by the World Health Organization.
The number of basic medical check-ups has increased by 13% compared to 2018, , exceeding the established target of 475 thousand citizens per year.
There are 13% more people who have performed the checkup in 2019 if compared with the last year. And since 2015 when this program started, some 250 thousand citizens have benefited from free check-up, while 34 thousand and 235 free surgical interventions have been performed in 29 hospitals in the country.
“This national program has been highly praised by the World Health Organization and beyond the political , it has helped tens of thousands of people to perform medical check-ups,” Prime Minister Rama said. //a.i/
