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Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
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Yerevan, December 15, 2011
Armenia Fund USA, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s US Eastern Region
affiliate, is building a hospital in Martuni, Artsakh, with co-financing
from the Armenian Medial Fund USA (New York) and the government of Artsakh.
With Martuni’s existing hospital, built in 1965, having fallen into
disrepair and no longer capable of offering adequate healthcare, the
construction of a new hospital had become a critical necessity in recent
years.
The future hospital, consisting of a two-story structure with a total area
of 2,470 square meters, will be a state-of-the art facility, fully equipped
to provide a broad range of modern health services.
The basement of the new hospital will house various storage and service
rooms; the first floor will comprise a reception hall, an emergency room, an
intensive-care unit, and polyclinic, diagnostic, infectious disease, and
administrative departments; and the second floor will include departments of
surgery, therapy, and gynecology. The hospital’s electric substation,
heating and air-conditioning systems will allow to run the hospital more
efficiently. The hospital complex will also feature a sizeable courtyard for
the patients’ recreation.
With the basement and the first floor already built, currently crews are
constructing the second floor. Dr. Grisha Gasparyan, the hospital’s
executive director, said that the facility will be able to serve close to
1,000 stationery and 1,400 ambulatory patients yearly, and up to 23
inpatients a day. Dr. Gasparyan added that the hospital will admit patients
from nearby villages as well.
“The new Martuni Hospital is the second medical facility to be built in
Artsakh through the efforts of the Armenian community of the Eastern United
States,” said Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the Hayastan All-Armenian
Fund. “The first such facility was the Stepanakert Polyclinic, which, ever
since its construction nine years ago, has played an invaluable role in the
health maintenance of the local population. We are extremely gratified that
the future Martuni Hospital will in turn benefit the communities of Martuni
and surrounding areas.”
In addition to supporting such far-reaching projects as the Martuni
Hospital, the fund’s US Eastern Region affiliate has spearheaded the
HyeBridge Telehealth program, in partnership with the Yerevan State Medical
University. A telemedicine initiative, HyeBridge uses Internet-based
videoconferencing and a dedicated website to deliver improved healthcare to
a number of medical facilities in underserved communities throughout Armenia
and Artsakh.
Martuni is the site of several major development projects financed by the
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. Currently the city’s water-distribution network
is being reconstructed, with funds raised through Telethon 2010. The
project’s first phase has already been completed, and currently construction
bids are being accepted for the second and third phases.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress