ARMENIAN DOCTORS SUPPORT LEONID ROSHAL’S CANDIDATURE OFFERED FOR NOBEL PRIZE

Noyan Tapan
Dec 18 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. "I help children irrespective
of their religion and nationality." Well-known pediatrician Leonid
Roshal, Chairman of RF Public Chamber’s Commission on Healthcare
Issues, who arrived in Armenia at the invitation of the Medical
Chamber NGO on December 16, said at the press conference held the
same day. In his words, all social and medical problems should be
first of all solved for children, including disabled ones. L.Roshal
provided medical aid to children who appeared in emergency situations,
suffered from natural calamities and terrorist acts throughout the
world. He was in Armenia after the 1988 earthquake and in the years of
Karabakh war he provided assistance to both Armenian and Azerbaijani
children. At several countries’ suggestion L.Roshal’s candidature was
offered to Nobel Prize. As RA NAS Academician Emil Gabrielian said
at the press conference held the same day, the Armenian doctors also
support L.Roshal’s candidature and will come up with the respective
mediation. "He deserves this great prize for such large-sale, huge
work in medicine and for his humanism," E.Gabrielian said. Within the
framework of the visit L.Roshal also visited Yerevan Brandy Company
and Nairi medical center.