MODERN CANCER TREATMENT CENTER WILL BE OPENED IN ARMENIA: PREMIER
/ARKA/
February 20, 2011
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, February 20. /ARKA/. A modern cancer treatment center will be
opened in Armenia, prime minister Tigran Sargsyan said Saturday during
a meeting with the activists of the Republican Party in Ashtarak,
the administrative center of Aragatsotn province.
“Cancer treatment is now quite expensive, and to make it more
accessible the government intends to build a modern cancer center in
Armenia”, he said.
The prime minister said the project will be implemented with the
support of the government of Belgium.
In 2010 November an agreement was signed with the Belgian company
IBA Molecular to acquire a proton accelerator Cyclone 18/18, worth
$5 million.
The construction is expected to kick off in early 2012. The total cost
of the program is $30 million. The cyclotron radionuclide accelerator
will be used for producing isotopes as part of the project worked out
by Yerevan Institute of Physics, for early diagnosis and treatment
of cancer. According to the health ministry, 30,000 people suffer
from cancer and their number grows by 3 percent every year.
“Oncological and cardiovascular diseases cause 90% of deaths,” said
the premier.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
