ARMENPRESS

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER IN PROSHYAN VILLAGE MOVES
INTO RENOVATED PREMISES

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 12, ARMENPRESS; Ara Babloyan,
chairman of a parliament committee on health, nature
protection and social issues, as well as a deputy
health minister Tatoul Hakobian, traveled yesterday to
the village of Proshsyan, in Kotayk province, for
inauguration of Primary Health Care Center. The Center
is now in a renovated premises furnished with modern
equipment.
The overhaul was funded by Assistance to Armenia,
an organization 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dilapidated building and had outdated equipment.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 waste water removal system
did not work resulting in humidity that gradually
destroyed the walls.
The renovation began early this year and by May the
first floor was completely repaired. The repair of the
second floor was over in late September. The repair
budget totaled $100,000. 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
$20,000 for installing a heating system and purchasing
some new medical equipment.
Five million Drams were allocated by the World
Bank, after the first floor was repaired, for buying a
set of medical instruments and devices.
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.
Assistance to Armenia has been active in Armenia
since 1988 when it experienced a devastating
earthquake. Later it shifted to helping Erebuni and
Arabkir medical centers in Yerevan.
According to Ara Babloyan, the organization has
donated $10 million in the last years to help improve
Armenia’s health sector.
The benefactors were granted the title of honorary
citizens of the village, while Ara Babloyan, Tatoul
Hakobian and the Swiss Armenians have decided to give
500,000 Drams assistance to every third baby born in
villagers’ families.