Armenian competitiveness fund to provide extra funding under nuclear
medicine program
YEREVAN, March 10. /ARKA/. The Armenian National Competitiveness Fund
will provide additional funding under a program of establishing a
nuclear medicine center, reported Bekor Papazyan, Executive Director of
the Fund.
On February 19, the Armenian Government approved a decision on
establishing a nuclear medicine center at the Yerevan Institute of
Physics. Under the ?¬30mln worth program a nuclear medicine and cancer
control center is to be founded in Armenia.
`The program will be implemented on the initiative of the RA Ministry
of Economy with the assistance of the RA Ministry of Health,’ Papazyan
told reporters.
He pointed out that a radionuclide generator system will be installed
at the center under the Belgian Government’s sponsorship.
`The center will actually be the core of a large-scale investment
program which provides for the construction of medical centers and
provision of medical services,’ Papazyan said.
RA Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan said that the program will not
only facilitate the establishment of a modern regional diagnostic and
treatment center, but also allow specialists to find solutions to a
number of problems in the related fields, particularly pharmaceutics,
environmental protection and agriculture. `0–