109 DOCTORS AND NURSES TO BE TRAINED IN 2007 TO GET FAMILY DOCTOR’S PROFESSION
Noyan Tapan
Feb 20 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. 39 doctors and 70 nurses working
in Yerevan will be trained to get family doctor’s profession during
2007 within the framework of the World Bank credit program on health
care system modernization.
As Armen Soghoyan, the Chief of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office Department
for Health Care and Social Security stated at the February 19 press
conference, 196 distict therapeutics, pediatricians and 146 nurses
were trained till now.
A.Soghoyan mentioned that the program of modernization of the Surb
Astvatsamayr (The Blessed Virgin) and Surb Grigor Lusavorich (Saint
Gregory the Illuminator) medical centers is continued. In his words,
it is envisaged to finish this year the reconstruction works of the
maternity hospital of the Surb Grigor Lusavorich medical center for
which about 500 thousand dollars will be spent.
Besides, a boiler-house at the cost of 200 thousand dollars will
be built for the polyclinic building of the hospital, and about
30 thousand dollars will be allocated for rendering medical waste
materials harmless. It was also mentioned that the construction
works of the Surb Astvatsamayr medical center will finish in the
spring. Programs on introduction of information technologies and
management of waste materials will also be implemented. By the way,
the hospital was provided in 2006 with super modern medical equipment.