TWO HUNDRED CASES OF MEDICATION POISONING IN ONE YEAR

The emergency service recorded 200 emergency calls from medication poisoning in the course of 2007, statistics department head of the emergency service, Satenik Poghosyan, told Panoarama.am. In her words, the number of emergency calls recorded in the course of the last year is not a low indicator.

In the words of Susanna Nushikyan, director of primary health care center of Kanaker-Avan communities, poisoning from medication is mainly caused by carelessness of consumers. ''We must not exclude the fact that expired medication is also sold. However, the buyers are supposed to check the expiration date while purchasing the product,'' Nushikyan said.