"5 YEARS TOGETHER: IMPROVING MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH" PROJECT SUMMED UP IN YEREVAN

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
12.11.2009 19:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Outcomes of the "NOVA" project of the Agency for
International Development summed up in Yerevan today. In frames of
"NOVA", the project "5 Years Together: Improving Maternal and Child
Health" was implemented. During the event, held on November 12 the
outcomes and achievements of the program related to availability and
quality of services for safe reproduction in the villages, as well
as maternal and child health services have been presented.

18 training centers and 29 teams for quality assurance and training
of more than 2,5 thousand paramedics have been created in frames of
the program launched in 2004.

12 successful schools for mothers, 277 rural health clinics and 10
medical centers of regional importance have been opened. To address
the problems at the community level 129 rural health clinics has
been renovated.

"The results of the program would be so great that will be felt for
years to come," Deputy Minister of Health of Armenia Tatul Hakobyan
said.