PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER IN PROSHYAN VILLAGE TO MOVE INTO RENOVATED PREMISES
ARMENPRESS
Aug 24, 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS; The Primary Health Care Center in the
village of Proshyan in Kotayk province will soon move into a renovated
premises furnished with modern equipment. Its manager Gayane Badeyan
said to Armenpress that the overhaul is being funded by Assistance
to Armenia organization, which is based in a Swiss town of Schafhausen.
This organization’s chairmen is Mihran Baronian, an ethnic Armenia. His
imitative to help renovate the Center in the Armenian village is
supported actively by Pino Chacho and Nikol Abrahamian.
The Primary Health Center was housed in a dilapidated building and
had outdated equipment. Its drinking water pipeline and waster water
removal system did not work resulting in humidity that gradually
destroyed the walls. This certainly affected the quality of medical
services. The renovation began early this year and by May the first
floor was completely repaired. By late September the repair of the
second floor is expected to end. The center has also new furniture.
The repair budget has totaled $70,000. The money was raised from
screening of a documentary film made by Swiss journalists about
Armenia, and about this village.
Pino Chacho said the organization will give extra funds for installing
a heating system and purchasing some new medical equipment.
Gayane Badeyan said 5 million Drams were allocated also by the World
Bank for buying a set of medical instruments and devices. She said the
bank made this allocation contingent on overall repair of the building.
The Center offers dentist, gynecological, diagnostic and some other
services. The community wants to develop it into a family medicine
center. Its 16-member personnel works for almost 5,000 inhabitants
of the village.