Karabakh Telecom helped children with vaccination

19-03-2007 12:48:50 – KarabakhOpen

The NKR minister of health Zoya Lazaryan and Ralf Erikian, CEO of
Karabakh Telecom, held a news conference on March 17. Narineh
Hairapetyan, the director of the Millennium program of vaccination of
children, was also present.

The news conference was devoted to the charity of Karabakh Telecom in
health care. Zoya Lazaryan said the program of vaccination of
children which started in Armenia five years ago was launched in
Karabakh a few days ago.

`Recently cases of measles have gone up. The reason is the shortage of
vaccine. At first sight it seems that the health of children cannot be
politicized, but we could not get vaccine because the country is
unrecognized,’ Zoya Lazaryan said.

According to the minister, vaccination has already started. 150
children aged 1-6 got vaccination. She also informed that the founder
of the Millennium project of vaccination of Armenian children Raffi
Altajian from California set up contact with the relevant agency of
Karabakh. The organization raised funds, and Karabakh Telecom made the
first donation of 25 thousand dollars.

Zoya Lazaryan also mentioned that Karabakh Telecom had donated 10
thousand dollars to the children’s center Arevik to buy equipment. The
company also helped the hospitals of Kashatagh and Shahumyan to buy
ambulances.