ICRC facilitates transfer of 13 seriously ill patients from Artsakh to Armenia

Panorama

Armenia – March 14 2023

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has facilitated the transfer of thirteen more severely ill patients from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to Armenia amid the ongoing blockade, the Artsakh Ministry of Health reported.

The patients with serious oncological and cardiovascular diseases were transported to specialized medical facilities in Armenia on Tuesday, the ministry said in a statement.

Ten patients, who had been transferred to Armenia for medical treatment, returned to Artsakh together with an accompanying team.

Planned surgeries remain suspended in Artsakh hospitals due to Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor, the sole road connecting Artsakh to Armenia, which started back on 12 December.

Six children are in neonatal and intensive care in the Arevik Medical Center.

Seven patients, including two critically ill, remain in the intensive care unit of the Republican Medical Center.

The Red Cross has helped transfer a total of 182 patients from Artsakh to Armenia for urgent treatment since the start of the blockade.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS