Health

  • NEXT YEAR MORE THAT 208 THOUSANDS CITIZENS WILL GET FREE MEDICAL TREATMENTS
    20:00 15/11/2007
    NEXT YEAR MORE THAT 208 THOUSANDS CITIZENS WILL GET FREE MEDICAL TREATMENTS
    Harutun Kushkyan, the minister of health announced in the parliament that the annual increase of the sum disposed to the health ministry is 10-15%.
  • 50-60 CHILDREN BORN WITH SNOUT OF WOLF AND LIP OF RABBIT ANNUALLY
    15:43 14/11/2007
    50-60 CHILDREN BORN WITH SNOUT OF WOLF AND LIP OF RABBIT ANNUALLY
    Annually 50-60 children are born with the illness of rabbit lip and wolf snout in the republic, department head of Yerevan state medical university, Gagik Kocharyan told Panorama.am.
  • 5859 PIGS DIE FROM AFRICAN PLAGUE IN KARABAKH
    15:38 14/11/2007
    5859 PIGS DIE FROM AFRICAN PLAGUE IN KARABAKH
    Some 5859 pigs have died from African plague in the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. There are total of 31,000 pigs in Karabakh. Currently, prevention measures are taken. According to Karabakhopen, the...
  • NKR in Struggle with African Plague
    20:23 10/11/2007
    NKR in Struggle with African Plague
    An epidemic office is established in NK against swine African plague. The epidemic was found in the regions Askeran and Martakert, but some outbreaks were found in the capital, too. Grisha Baghinyan,...
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMITTEES SET UP IN RURAL AREAS
    12:56 10/11/2007
    COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMITTEES SET UP IN RURAL AREAS
    Community Health Committees (CHC) will be formed to tackle the health problems of rural community residents, Karine Gabrielyan, program officer of Primary Health Care program, told Panorama.am.
  • IS SOVETASHEN LANDFILL DANGEROUS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH?
    15:59 09/11/2007
    IS SOVETASHEN LANDFILL DANGEROUS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH?
    An emergency call was made at the hot line of the nature protection ministry that allergic diseases have been observed among residents living in the vicinity of Sovetashen landfill.
  • 51 PERSONS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER VACCINATION
    15:35 07/11/2007
    51 PERSONS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER VACCINATION
    “Total of 1 million 700,000 has been spent for vaccination against measles. Some 2231 vaccination points have been opened throughout the republic. By the decision of the minister, hospitals are...
  • AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
    14:17 03/11/2007
    AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
    By program ''Millennium Goals'' it is expected to unveil 70 percent of tuberculosis and cure at least 5 percent, Nara Merjumyan, tuberculosis national program official, told Panorama.am.
  • 20th century evil doesn’t want to back off
    22:14 02/11/2007
    20th century evil doesn’t want to back off
    This year, 84 new cases of AIDS have been registered in Armenia. From 1988 to September 30, 2007, 513 cases were registered. According to the AIDS center’s statistics, the number of cases of those...
  • Nature minister gives no warnings
    18:46 02/11/2007
    Nature minister gives no warnings
    On his three-day visit to the province of Syunik, nature minister Aram Harutyunyan met with several large production facilities to find out just how much these facilities were harming the region’s...
  • INTESTINAL BACILLUS DETECTED IN FOOD OF TURKISH PRODUCTION
    17:55 31/10/2007
    INTESTINAL BACILLUS DETECTED IN FOOD OF TURKISH PRODUCTION
    Consumer Rights Protection NGO submitted 9 samples of food product for inspection and 5 of them did not comply with microbe standards.
  • EACH DAY 400-500 PEOPLE INOCULATED AGAINST MEASLES AND RUBELLA
    13:17 22/10/2007
    EACH DAY 400-500 PEOPLE INOCULATED AGAINST MEASLES AND RUBELLA
    As of October 19, on the second, “sanitation” stage of the inoculations against measles and rubella, 97.96 % of the target population have been inoculated in the Republic, as Panorama.am’s...
  • IN THE VISIBLE FUTURE AFFORDABLE AND QUALITY HEALTHCARE WILL BE AVAILABLE
    13:17 22/10/2007
    IN THE VISIBLE FUTURE AFFORDABLE AND QUALITY HEALTHCARE WILL BE AVAILABLE
    According to the agreement signed in 2004 between the RA Government and the World Bank, within four years $7,100,000 will be allotted to the Republic’s Family Doctor Program.
  • FAO certifies existence of swine fever
    20:42 18/10/2007
    FAO certifies existence of swine fever
    “The results of tests by the FAO organization of the United Nations (World Food Program) are already in Armenia.
  • Inoculations continuing
    20:46 16/10/2007
    Inoculations continuing
    Head of the national program to protect the immune system, Gayane Sahakyan, told a Panorama.am journalist that the initial stages had been completed in inoculating measles and German measles, and...
  • VIVACELL SUPPORTS PREVENTION OF ILLNESSES
    15:19 12/10/2007
    VIVACELL SUPPORTS PREVENTION OF ILLNESSES
    Thanks to the social investment made by “VivaCell,” the construction of the Pathology Research and Education Center of the Armenian-American Health Center has been finished.
  • PARENTS: DOCTORS NOT WELL PREPARED
    13:58 06/10/2007
    PARENTS: DOCTORS NOT WELL PREPARED
    The campaign of the ministry of health against measles and German measles was successful up the level that 387,476 persons from the age 6 to 27 were vaccinated in the first four days.
  • Vaccinations offered
    19:52 29/09/2007
    Vaccinations offered
    Ministry of Health officials answered panorama.am about the "Everybody protected" declaration about measles and chicken pox.
  • MEDICAL CARE NOT AFFORDABALE FOR POPULATION
    16:53 28/09/2007
    MEDICAL CARE NOT AFFORDABALE FOR POPULATION
    The percentage of rural dwellers that had medical problems but did not apply to a medical institution is 28.4.
  • Optimalization: 30 polyclinics to close in provinces
    21:49 26/09/2007
    Optimalization: 30 polyclinics to close in provinces
    To move forward the 2007-2012 optimalization program of the health system in the provinces, the number of hospitals will be reduced by five, and the number of polyclinics by 30, leaving just eight...
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