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shelter, a place where you are always welcome to escape to in case of necessity.
“Before I used to get 150 to 200 messages a day; now I get about 500.” Charkviani said the houses he has discovered have sold for 2,000 Georgian lari ($654) to $17,000.
9.1.8 Healthcare sector news
Georgian insurance market grows by 19% in H1
Georgian health minister announces salary supplements for paramedics, ambulance personnel
Field hospital to be set up in Tbilisi as virus levels breach record
The Georgian insurance market ended H1 with an expansion of 19% y/y, while gross written premiums (GWPs) reached GEL 448.64mn (€119.29mn), according to data published by the Georgian Insurance Supervision Service.
Life and non-life insurance had almost the same growth rates, also at 19%, while the market remained non-life oriented - non-life insurance occupies over 93% of the portfolio.
Of the largest market segments, the most impressive growth was recorded by Motor Hull, with GWP increased to GEL 74.49mn, while property insurance also grew by more than 25%, as well as accident insurance and health insurance.
Insurers' paid claims expanded by almost 26% to GEL 194.19mn. In terms of segments, the largest amount of paid claims fell on health insurance - almost GEL 105mn.
Out of 18 companies operating in the Georgian insurance market, GPI Holding continued to lead (GEL 86.11mn of GWP), Aldagi ranked second, while Imedi L and TBC Insurance swapped places, with Imedi L falling to fourth and TBC Insurance moving up to third.
Georgian paramedics and ambulance personnel are to receive GEL 500 ($160) salary supplements, Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze announced on August 18.
On August 17, Georgia’s government announced the creation of a field hospital for additional coronavirus cases in Tbilisi.
Tikaradze underlined that ambulance doctors from all Georgian regions will receive the salary supplements, noting that they have been working in very difficult conditions.
“We have been giving supplements to doctors for almost a year... The remuneration of all medical staff is quite high,” said Tikaradze.
Tikaradze visited a recently erected field hospital for 500 COVID-19 patients in the Didi Digomi district of Tbilisi earlier on August 18.
The government increased the salaries of healthcare workers who are involved in the fight against COVID-19 by 50% in October last year.
Georgian Minister of Health Ekaterine Tikaradze announced on August 16 that a field hospital will be set up in Tbilisi in the suburb of Digomi. On August 12, Georgia announced three weeks of new COVID-19 restrictions as coronavirus cases reached their highest levels yet in the country.
The hospital will have capacity for 500 patients and most beds will be equipped with oxygen.
Tikaradze said that if necessary, field hospitals might be arranged in other regions besides Tbilisi. The field hospital’s arrangement started on August 17, as beds and other equipment were mobilised in one of the sports halls of the Olympic Village in Digomi.
Tikaradze also declared that vaccination centres that do not require registration will be arranged in all regions of Georgia. She added that following
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