In 2023 about 146 billion 373 million drams will be allocated from the state budget to the Ministry of Health of Armenia. This amount is about 1.6% of GDP, and this figure has not increased, it remains at the same level, Minister of Finance Tigran Khachatryan said at the joint session of the parliamentary standing committees at the National Assembly during the debates on the 2023 draft state budget. According to him, the Health Ministry's expenditures in 2022 will make an estimated 141 billion 435 million drams by the end of the year. Initially, the 2022 budget envisaged an amount of 119 billion 696 million drams, that is, it is expected that by the end of the year 20 billion more will be spent than approved. "At the same time, the Ministry of Health was allocated 157 billion 910 million drams in 2021," Khachatryan said. The minister explained that the difference in the funding of the health sector in 2022-2023 compared to 2021 is due to the fact that in 2021 there were large expenses for the treatment of coronavirus infection, which later began to be reduced. By the way, to cover the cost of COVID-19, in 2023 is planned to allocate about 5 billion drams.