AZG Armenian Daily #186, 15/10/2005

Healthcare

‘GRAND HOLDING’ PRESENTS MODERN EQUIPMENT FOR OPHTHALMOLOGIC CLINIC

Aleksander Malayan, head of Malayan Ophthalmologic Clinic, and Hrant
Vardanian, director of “Grand Holding” signed a cooperation contract on
October 13. According to the contract, Hrant Vardanian will provide the
clinic with equipment that gives the digital image of retina. This is the
last word of ophthalmology. In exchange for the equipment the clinic will
provide the whole staff of “Grant Holding” with medical services free of
charge until the financial sources the company invested will be redeemed.
The cooperation contract is for 30 years. “Grant Holding” will continue
providing the clinic with various medical equipments under the same
conditions. “This contract is in the interests of both the clinic and our
staff and our people,” Hrant Vardanian said. “When I was undergoing
treatment in this clinic I had to leave for Moscow for further treatment at
Fyodorov’s clinic, as we didn’t have that equipment here. Today this problem
is solved,” he said.

According to Mr. Malian, today we should pay more attention to our health,
when each second a man becomes blind and each moment a child loses his
sight. 15 thousand people apply to the ocular clinic and 4 thousand of them
undergo operations annually. If years ago people had problems with eyesight
in the age of 60-65, now the patients apply to the clinic from the age of
50-55. Mr. Malayan conditioned this fact by ecological problems and the fact
that our society is not health conscious.

Mr. Malian said that there are many patients with diabetes and high blood
pressure. This instrument will greatly help in diagnosis of retina even in
the stage when the patient feels no changes in the organism. This example of
cooperation with “Grand Holding” is very important for the fact that the
clinic would be able to purchase the instrument on its on sources only many
years after. Mr. Vardanian assured that he will continue this cooperation,
realizing that the most important wealth of our nation is the health.

By Tamar Minasian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress