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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/

    11 June, 2009


    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund to establish regional cardiology center in
    Syunik

    The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has begun construction of a cardiology
    center in Armenia's Syunik Region. The facility, to be built in Akner,
    a community adjoining the City of Goris, will be affiliated with
    Yerevan's Center of Cardiology. The new hospital will be the only one
    of its kind serving southern Armenia and Artsakh.

    The project, with an initial cost estimate of approximately
    U.S. $820,000, is financed by the fund's French affiliate; the
    French-Armenian Doctors' Association (Association de Santé
    Franco-Arménienne), based in Marseille; and the department of
    Bouches-du- Rhône, a major administrative area in the south of
    France. A considerable portion of the amount was bequeathed to the
    fund by French-Armenian benefactor Krikor Shahinian.

    `This trilateral collaboration, forged in Bouches-du-Rhône, one of
    France's largest departments, is further proof of the great trust
    enjoyed by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund in the French-Armenian
    community as well as with French regional authorities,' said Bedros
    Terzian, chair of the fund's French affiliate.

    The construction of the two-story cardiology center started in May and
    currently its foundations are being laid. When completed, the hospital
    will have a main ward with 16 beds and a polyclinic capable of
    accommodating 20 ambulatory patients per day. In addition, the grounds
    surrounding the future hospital will undergo extensive landscaping,
    including the planting of trees.

    According to Spartak Minasyan, mayor of Akner, the establishment of
    the cardiology center will lead to the creation of ancillary
    businesses and jobs in the area, fostering economic development in
    neighboring communities.

    `The availability of a full-fledged cardiology center in Syunik means
    that patients in the region as well as Artsakh will have access to
    high-quality healthcare locally and will no longer need to travel to
    Yerevan to receive treatment,' said Ara Vardanyan, executive director
    of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund.

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    Hayastan All Armenian Fund
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