Testing for medical workers will be free, while participation in courses to obtain a certificate may be paid, Armenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan told reporters on February 23. She explained that they need to spend money to get an education as well. Answering a question, why they ask patients to pay AMD 100 thousand a day for being in intensive care, the Minister said that the state order does not cover all the expenses of medical services. "If the patient is not a beneficiary of a social group or not a beneficiary of the state order, then after certain days the service is provided on a fee-for-service basis. There is nothing extraordinary here. Different medical centers have different price tags," Avanesyan noted. As far as acute respiratory diseases are concerned, according to her, there is no tension and no overload in the hospital system. She also assured that all necessary medical assistance will be provided to servicemen who suffered from the fire in Azat village. "Treatment is going on, it is a long process - both inpatient and outpatient treatment," the minister added. Answering a question about abuses in the Ministry discovered during Arsen Torosyan's period, Avanesyan said she was not summoned for questioning.