CONFERENCE FOR MEDICAL AND SOCIAL EXPERTS

Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
28 Sept 04

Recently cooperation between the RA Work and Social Ministry and
the NKR Ministry of Social Security has been rather active. The
evidence to this is organization of joint seminars, consultations. On
September 23-24 a conference was held in Stepanakert, which was
organized by the RA Agency of Medical-Social Expertise and the two
ministries. At the conference experts of the sphere both from NKR
and Armenia were present. The two-day conference aimed to share
methodic, organizational, professional skills with their Karabakh
colleagues, exchange approaches in medical-social expertise, and
render practical aid. On the first day the specialists arrived from
Armenia presented the structure of the RA Agency of Medical-Social
Expertise, aims, model of management, the legal acts used during the
expertise, contemporary methods of rehabilitation of the disabled,
peculiarities of medical-social expertise in case of tuberculosis and
childhood diseases. The head of the RA Agency Misha Vanian was also
present at the seminar. He said this was the second meeting with the
NKR specialists in the sphere of medical-social expertise, and the
first was in 2001. â^À^ÜAs to our cooperation, we invite our Artsakh
colleagues to take part in the analysis of the annual report, who will
naturally take part in the discussions of the existing problems in the
sphere and we gladly share our experience with them. Our agency has
been operating for two years now and as in Karabakh it is only being
created, we have come to help our colleagues,â^À^Ý mentioned M. Vanian.

ANAHIT DANIELIAN. 28-09-2004