ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Feb 18 2008

Armenia has required resources for setting up an international
healthcare center

YEREVAN, February 18. /ARKA/. Armenia has all the required resources
for setting up an international healthcare center, Armenia’s Minister
of Trade and Economic Development Nerses Yeritsian in making a speech
during the international economic forum `Bridge 2008′ in Tsakhkadzor.

Yeritsian reminded that the Government set an objective to establish
such a center. The Minister pressed the importance of the discussions
on the future of science and technologies, medical and
biotechnologies in particular, held recently under the World Economic
Forum in Davos.

Particularly, the Minister said that information about research has
been provided saying that people live longer, but healthcare
expenditures are growing and people are ready to spend them on
obtaining cheap but high-quality medical services.

This means that Armenia has all the resources to set up an
international center of healthcare, bearing in mind the existing
physics institute with serious applications in the sphere of
measurements and instrument-making industry, as well as certain
abilities in providing high-quality services in the field of tourism,
Yeritsian said. The initiative should not be limited within two or
three hospitals, he said.

`This should become a common policy of the country, and Armenia can
become competitive in the niche of high-technology medical services,’
the Minister said.

The fifth International economic forum `Bridge 2008′ is held in
Tsakhkadzor on February 15-18. -0–