AZG Armenian Daily #123, 30/06/2007

Humanitarian

WORLD ARMENIAN DOCTORS IN YEREVAN TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

More than 1500 specialists of health service from different countries:
96 from USA, 35 from Canada, 25 from Iran and Mozambique are taking
part in Second International Medical Conference in Yerevan. The first
June 28 sitting of the conference started with a press conference,
which was followed by the welcome speeches of the First Lady of
Armenia Bella Kocharian and Healthcare Minister Harutyun Kushkian.

This conference may be considered as the longest and the most
traditional conference, as its first sitting was held in 1970, in
Lebanon. According to the Head of the National Healthcare Institute
Derenik Dumanian each meeting is a guarantee of exchange of experience
and information, further meetings and cooperation. "For example,
after the previous conference an American dental clinic was opened. It
was the gift of the Armenian Doctors’ Assosiation and "Lima"
institute.

As a result of this conference, though it is the first day of it, an
apparatus of osteoporosis was given to "Mother and child’s health
protection research center", said Dumanian.

26 scientific directions are included in this conference. 500 works of
more than 1000 doctors and scientists were published in a scientific
collection. The publication of these articles will provide a progress
in the approaches of local medical sphere, as the approaches change in
the world as well, i.e. in the sphere of cardiology it’s a question
which method is more efficient surgical or conservative.

Within the frameworks of this conference each sphere of a scientific
group has an opportunity to examine the issues of that sphere
separately. This conference is very interesting for the guests, too,
as they are given an opportunity to get acquainted with the scientific
works of local scientists.

By Susanna Margarian