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    ARMENPRESS

    PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER IN PROSHYAN VILLAGE MOVES
    INTO RENOVATED PREMISES

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 12, ARMENPRESS; Ara Babloyan,
    chairman of a parliament committee on health, nature
    protection and social issues, as well as a deputy
    health minister Tatoul Hakobian, traveled yesterday to
    the village of Proshsyan, in Kotayk province, for
    inauguration of Primary Health Care Center. The Center
    is now in a renovated premises furnished with modern
    equipment.
    The overhaul was funded by Assistance to Armenia,
    an organization based in a Swiss town of Schafhausen.
    This organization's chairmen is Mihran Baronian, an
    ethnic Armenia. His imitative to help renovate the
    Center in the Armenian village is supported actively
    by Pino Chacho and Nikol Abrahamian.
    The Primary Health Center was housed in a
    dilapidated building and had outdated equipment. Its
    drinking water pipeline and waste water removal system
    did not work resulting in humidity that gradually
    destroyed the walls.
    The renovation began early this year and by May the
    first floor was completely repaired. The repair of the
    second floor was over in late September. The repair
    budget totaled $100,000. The money was raised from
    screening of a documentary film made by Swiss
    journalists about Armenia, and about this village.
    Pino Chacho said the organization will give extra
    $20,000 for installing a heating system and purchasing
    some new medical equipment.
    Five million Drams were allocated by the World
    Bank, after the first floor was repaired, for buying a
    set of medical instruments and devices.
    The Center offers dentist, gynecological,
    diagnostic and some other services. The community
    wants to develop it into a family medicine center. Its
    16-member personnel works for almost 5,000 inhabitants
    of the village.
    Assistance to Armenia has been active in Armenia
    since 1988 when it experienced a devastating
    earthquake. Later it shifted to helping Erebuni and
    Arabkir medical centers in Yerevan.
    According to Ara Babloyan, the organization has
    donated $10 million in the last years to help improve
    Armenia's health sector.
    The benefactors were granted the title of honorary
    citizens of the village, while Ara Babloyan, Tatoul
    Hakobian and the Swiss Armenians have decided to give
    500,000 Drams assistance to every third baby born in
    villagers' families.
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