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ABOUT 3,600 PEOPLE IN ARMENIA NEED DAILY PALLIATIVE CARE
YEREVAN, October 11. / ARKA /. About 3,600 people in Armenia need daily
palliative care, Hrant Karapetyam, head of the National Palliative
Care Center of the National Cancer Center, told reporters today.
Armenia has now four pilot palliative care centers, which can treat up
to 15 people a month. Two of them are located in medical institutions
of Yerevan and the other two are in Ararat and Lori regions. In
addition, the National Cancer Centre has a palliative care center,
which was able to treat only 57 people in one year.
These centers were opened in March this year as part of palliative
care concept developed in 2012. The centers will conduct various
studies for 12 months and the findings will be used by experts to
develop specific proposals for government funding. To date, a day's
palliative care is worth 20 thousand drams (about $50).
Besides, a parliamentary committee on health, maternity and childhood
issues is elaborating a bill on narcotic, psychotropic and psychedelic
drugs, which was approved in the first reading , which provides a
clear description of the mechanisms doctors should be guided by in
prescribing opioid analgesics .
According to Suren Krmoyan from the health ministry, the bill has
two objectives: to simplify the procedure for giving the sick people
strong painkillers to rule out possibility of illicit drug trafficking,
and the protection of doctors, prescribing these medications.
October 12 is World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care. Palliative
care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It
focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain,
and stress of a serious illness-whatever the diagnosis. The goal is
to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Palliative care treats people suffering from serious and chronic
illnesses such as cancer, cardiac disease such as congestive heart
failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , kidney failure,
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and many more.
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16:25 11.10.2013
http://arka.am/en/news/society/about_3_600_people_in_armenia_need_daily_palliativ e_care/
From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, October 11. / ARKA /. About 3,600 people in Armenia need daily
palliative care, Hrant Karapetyam, head of the National Palliative
Care Center of the National Cancer Center, told reporters today.
Armenia has now four pilot palliative care centers, which can treat up
to 15 people a month. Two of them are located in medical institutions
of Yerevan and the other two are in Ararat and Lori regions. In
addition, the National Cancer Centre has a palliative care center,
which was able to treat only 57 people in one year.
These centers were opened in March this year as part of palliative
care concept developed in 2012. The centers will conduct various
studies for 12 months and the findings will be used by experts to
develop specific proposals for government funding. To date, a day's
palliative care is worth 20 thousand drams (about $50).
Besides, a parliamentary committee on health, maternity and childhood
issues is elaborating a bill on narcotic, psychotropic and psychedelic
drugs, which was approved in the first reading , which provides a
clear description of the mechanisms doctors should be guided by in
prescribing opioid analgesics .
According to Suren Krmoyan from the health ministry, the bill has
two objectives: to simplify the procedure for giving the sick people
strong painkillers to rule out possibility of illicit drug trafficking,
and the protection of doctors, prescribing these medications.
October 12 is World Day of Hospice and Palliative Care. Palliative
care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It
focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain,
and stress of a serious illness-whatever the diagnosis. The goal is
to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
Palliative care treats people suffering from serious and chronic
illnesses such as cancer, cardiac disease such as congestive heart
failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , kidney failure,
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and many more.
.-0-
16:25 11.10.2013
http://arka.am/en/news/society/about_3_600_people_in_armenia_need_daily_palliativ e_care/
From: Baghdasarian