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    EURO-CAUCASIAN CARDIOLOGY CONFERENCE KICKS OFF IN YEREVAN

    ARMENPRESS
    Oct 29, 2009

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS: The two-day Euro-Caucasian Cardiology
    conference kicked off today in Yerevan organized by the Armenian
    Diaspora Ministry in collaboration with "Action Health Armenia-France"
    organization.

    About 100 cardiologists from Russia, France, Ukraine, Azerbaijan,
    Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, and others participate in the conference.

    Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan said the goal of the conference
    is to reveal and combine the potential of world spread Armenian
    cardiologists for the preservation of health of the Armenian people
    and development of medicine in Armenia.

    She said the conference will promote the cooperation between Armenian
    and Diaspora cardiologists, increase the professional qualities
    and improvement.

    Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, highlighting the conduction
    of the conference, noted that in the Armenian government's strategy
    health is being assessed as a sphere having a prior importance. The
    government views health as an important engine force in respect of
    Armenia's perspective developments.

    "We must form such an environment to be a regional health center.

    Such like programs are already declared and within the framework
    of private sector-state cooperation we are trying to implement this
    strategy. It is not a secret that during the recent period we have
    registered certain success in cardiology sphere and many patients
    arrive in Armenia from the neighboring countries to pass treatment
    here. It means we have the ability and must expand and strengthen it,"
    the prime minister said.

    Health Minister Harutyun Kushkyan said the cases of deaths from
    cardiovascular diseases are in Armenia on the first place making about
    the 54%. According to him, the conference is a good opportunity to
    present the new approaches in cardiology sphere.

    Chairman of the "Euro-Caucasian Congress of Cardiologists" Paul Baraga
    noted that Armenian cardiologists registered serious success during the
    recent years. "We too have something to learn from Armenian specialists
    and this conference is a great opportunity to contact with each other,
    exchange experience, present leading approaches," he said.
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