THE 8TH ANNUAL "MAN’S HEALTH" CONGRESS IN YEREVAN
Noyan Tapan
Oct 19, 2009
YEREVAN, 19 OCTOBER, NOYAN TAPAN-ARMENIANS TODAY: The 8th national
scientific-medical congress entitled "Man’s Health" is being held in
Yerevan under the slogan "Armenia-Russia: Medicine without Borders"
at the National Institute of Health of the RA Ministry of Health
on October 13-16. The congress features a conference with the theme
"Potential of the Diaspora in the health maintenance of the populations
of both countries" and presiding the conference are member of the
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor, well-known plastic
and cancer surgeon, lung specialist Arnold Adamyan and deputy chairman
of the national health institute, Professor Yuri Tunyan.
Throughout the congress and the conference, there will be speeches
and lectures on the technologies and the experience in the most
different theoretical and practical spheres of medicine, mapping and
reference systems for countries. In response to the questions by "NOYAN
TAPAN", vice-chairman on instruction at the National Health Institute,
chairman of the Armenian Association of Conventional Medicine Mkrtich
Avagyan mentioned that the coordinated partnership between Armenian
and Russian-Armenian doctors started 5-6 years ago when they began
to hold joint "open house days" within the framework of the Days of
the Union of Armenians of Russia in Armenia. The event reached out
to nearly 2,000 patients from Yerevan and the regions of Armenia.
According to Avagyan, the scientific-medical congress enhances the
cooperation between Armenian, Russian and Russian-Armenian doctors by
gradually including the field of preparation of specialists. Avagyan
says that the event will go on to become annual. The vice-chairman of
the institute added that the Health Ministries of Russia and Armenia
are currently holding talks on preparing an all-embracing contract
between both countries. "We must not forget about the fact that there
are hundreds of well-known doctors and scientists working in Russia
with whom cooperation may develop with the status established at
the state level," said Avagyan, adding that there are more Armenian
doctor-professors in Russia than in Armenia. Let us mention that
the 8th "Man’s Health" national scientific-medical congress under
the slogan "Armenia-Russia: Medicine without Borders" is organized
by the RA Ministry of Diaspora, the national health institute of
the RA Ministry of Health, the Russian Ministry of Health and Social
Development, the Union of Armenians of Russia, the Armenian Association
of Public Health and the "Man’s Health" humanitarian fund.
Exhibitions for pharmacology and medical technologies are being held
within the framework of the congress.