HAYASTAN FOUNDATION INAUGURATES RENOVATED HOSPITAL WARDS AND SWIMMING POOL

Armenpress
Sept 19 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS: Two wards of the Nork-Marash
isolation hospital, one for rehabilitation of patients and the
other for treatment of infectious diseases of children were reopened
today after a massive repair on a donation of the Armenian community
of Brazil.

Speaking at the opening ceremony the executive director of Hayastan
Foundation, Naira Melkumian, praised the community in Brazil for their
active participation in annual telethons organized by the Foundation
to raise funds for supporting various development and charity projects
in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Overall 54 million drams were spent
on the repair of the two wards.

The Foundation will also inaugurate today a swimming poll in Armenia’s
second largest town of Gyumri that was built with the strong support
of the government of the Hellenic Republic, Hayastan Foundation and
the Gyumri municipality.

Before the 1988 earthquake Gyumri had three swimming pools. This will
be the first pool in the town since 1988.