LARGE AMOUNT OF STALE MEDICINES IN ARMENIA

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 10, 2006

YEREVAN, August 10 /ARKA/. A large amount of stale medicines is kept in
Armenia, stated Chairman of the Standing Commission for Social Affairs,
Health and Nature Protection, RA Parliament, Mnatsakan Petrosyan at his
meeting with Director of the Medecins sans Frontieres Christer Terling.

"The stale medicines have mainly been accumulated since the devastating
earthquake in 1988 and have become a serious problem for us,"
he said. Petrosyan reported that the Armenian Parliament is now
considering a bill "On medicines".

In his turn, Terling informed Petrosyan that a plant reclaiming stale
medicines was constructed in Bosnia with partial sponsorship of the
Medicins sans Frontieres organization.

Petrosyan proposed the construction of an identical plant with
the organization’s sponsorship in Armenia. Terling expressed his
willingness to support this project.