On the occasion of June 1st, the International Day for Protection of Children, benefactor Mikael Vardanyan donated 3 neonatal emergency vehicles, fully equipped with all necessary latest medical equipment, artificial lung ventilation devices and a stationary digital radiography system to the Muratsan hospital complex.
For the first time in the region, a top-tier quality management standard for medical services has been introduced in the healthcare industry. Slavmed Medical Center has been certified in accordance with the ISO 7101:2023 Healthcare Quality Management System Requirements standard, making it the first medical center in the South Caucasus to achieve the certification.
The National Center for Infectious Diseases has been equipped with European-made new up-to- date medical equipment. Thanks to the financial support of benefactor Karen Vardanyan, the intensive care unit already has artificial lung ventilation apparatus, a bronchoscope, a hemodialysis device, neonatal cuvettes, heart work and blood pressure controlling monitors.
The United States Embassy in Armenia is pleased to announce the arrival of 306,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Armenia on March 14, 2022. This is a gift from the United States Government to the people of Armenia and is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s global vaccine sharing framework.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s spouse Mrs. Anna Hakobyan has delivered a speech at the World Cancer Leaders’ Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mrs. Hakobyan’s office said.
Cyclotron is planned to be put into operation in Armenia until the end of the year , Director of A. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute, YerPhI) Ani Aprahamian informed that relevant specialists are already in Armenia and it’s already a week they have started working on putting the cyclotron into operation.
After the government temporarily ceased sale restrictions of certain medications, deputy healthcare minister Sergey Khachatryan said the ministry has had concerns about the new prescription-only procedure since the very beginning.
The Government of Armenia will debate temporarily ceasing the earlier decision on imposing sale restrictions on certain medications. The restriction has covered certain drugs which from now on can only be acquired with a prescription. The issue will be debated during today’s Cabinet meeting.
A new law imposing certain open sale restrictions of medications in Armenia has come into force March 1. Speaking to reporters after today’s Cabinet meeting, healthcare minister Levon Altunyan said that 2500 medications from the total 4500 will be sold under prescriptions, while the remaining 2000 will be sold freely. “Drugs containing psychotropic substances, narcotics […]
Antibiotics and drugs containing codeine and hormonal substances will be sold only under prescriptions starting March 1.
