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    PRESS RELEASE
    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
    Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
    Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
    Tel: +(3741) 56 01 06 ext. 105
    Fax: +(3741) 52 15 05
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.himnadram.org/

    02 March, 2010


    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund begins reconstruction of Delivery Ward at Abovian
    Maternity Hospital

    Yerevan, March 02, 2010 - The Maternity Hospital of Abovian, in Armenia's
    Kotayk Region, became the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund's latest beneficiary
    this month, as the fund began to rebuild the facility's Delivery Ward. The
    initiative is sponsored by the fund's Canada (Montreal) affiliate, with
    financing by local benefactors Vrej and Imasdouhi Nigoghossian.

    With demolition work already completed, construction crews are currently
    building new partitions at the Delivery Ward. The other components of the
    project include the renovation and retiling of the floors as well as the
    replacement of all doors and windows.

    Commenting on the much-anticipated reconstruction, Dr. Larissa Madoyan,
    chief physician of the Maternity Hospital, said that the 25-year-old
    facility's grave disrepair has had an adverse effect on the quality of
    healthcare. "In terms of inspiring a sense of security and confidence among
    expectant mothers, the improved conditions of the ward will be of foremost
    importance," Dr. Madoyan explained. "In turn, a mother's well-being is
    crucial equally to her newborn and the medical staff caring for her." Dr.
    Madoyan added that already this year 193 babies were delivered at the
    hospital.

    In 2009 there were 1,422 births at the Delivery Ward. In addition, 247
    walk-in patients received care, 347 women underwent various surgical
    procedures, and 17,656 pregnant women were provided with medical
    consultation at the Maternity Hospital, which serves seven urban areas and
    close to 60 rural communities of Kotayk.

    "Every parent seeks to ensure the healthiest and most comfortable
    environment possible for their newborn child," said Ara Vardanyan, executive
    director of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. "With this in mind, the
    renovation and, in this case, reconstruction of our homeland's aging
    maternity wards is an area of high priority for the fund."
    "Perhaps the most heartwarming testament to the benefits of such projects is
    the marked increase of new births in a given community," Vardanyan
    concluded.

    Apart from the Abovian Maternity Hospital initiative, the Hayastan
    All-Armenian Fund is currently implementing several healthcare-development
    projects in Armenia. They include the construction of the Zangezur
    Cardiology Center in Goris and the reconstruction of the Noyemberian
    Hospital, the Delivery and Postnatal Department of the Maternity Ward at
    Surb Astvatsamayr Medical Center in Yerevan, and a wing of the Nork-Marash
    Medical Center, also in Yerevan.
    Hayastan All Armenian Fund
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