NA SPEAKER VISITS NORK OLD PEOPLE’S HOUSE

ARMENPRESS
Dec 26, 2008

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS: Armenian National Assembly Speaker
Hovik Abrahamian accompanied by the Armenian Labor and Social Affairs
Minister Arsen Hambartsumian visited Nork old people’s house.

Hovik Abrahamian got acquainted with the issues of the institution
and promised to provide 3 million AMD from his own means for their
solution. "I am very happy that the residents of the old people’s house
have high mood and I am happy to see them healthy. I assure you that
these people and the issues connected with them are under the limelight
of the state. Everything will be done so that they live in welfare,"
he said, adding that such visits will be of continuative nature.

The building conditions of Nork old people’s house are intended for 230
people. "This is a big family full of warmth. There is a rest house,
library, playing room, opportunities for spending interesting days,"
the director of the old people’s house Aramayis Aloyan said.

According to him, there is a system according to which residents of
each floor elect council of elders and a leader. Every day they are
planning their days. The director said that the old people’s house
needs reconstruction.

Minister Hambartsumian said that 4 state and 3 non-state old people’s
houses are functioning in the republic. In 2009 it is expected to
increase their budgets by 20 percent for increasing salaries of
employees and provision of services.