Clinic to Service Syunik, Vayots Dzor, and Artsakh
YEREVAN—Armenia Fund (Hayastan All-Armenian Fund) announced that the construction of the Zangezur Regional Cardiological Center in Goris is complete.
The project, valued at more than $1.2 million USD, was financed jointly by the French affiliate of Armenia Fund (Fonds Armenien de France), Marseille-based French-Armenian Doctors (Association de Sante Franco-Armenienne), and Bouches-du-Rhune, a large administrative area within the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur of France. Saad Hariri, the prime minister of Lebanon, also participated in the project with a sizable donation. A considerable portion of the financing was provided through a bequest of French-Armenian benefactor Krikor Shahinian.
The Zangezur Center is the only heart clinic in the south of Armenia that will be serving Armenia’s Syunik and Vayots Dzor regions as well as the entire population of Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh). The two-story facility features departments of echocardiography, electrocardiography, radiology, angiography, and angioplasty. The center also has an intensive care unit, an emergency room, a laboratory, and 8 patient rooms with 14 beds. The clinic has an autonomous boiler house with a dedicated water line.
More than 50 new cases of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and heart attacks are registered in the Syunik region alone every year. If treatment is not administered within an hour or two, patients have little chance to survive. Before the opening of the Zangezur Cardiological Center, acute heart patients had to be transported to Yerevan more than three hours away from Goris, and five to seven hours from Artsakh, depending on the region and time of year. The Zangezur Center will be able to simultaneously administer up to 6 emergency procedures as well as provide care to up to 16 inpatients and 20 outpatients at a time.
The clinic’s personnel will include experienced physicians who have concluded medical residencies at the Yerevan Nork-Marash Medical Center. The medical staff will consist of 45 professionals; they will collaborate with the French-Armenian Doctors Association, who will provide ongoing trainings.
Armenia Fund, Inc., is a non-profit 501©(3) tax-exempt corporation established in 1994 to facilitate large-scale humanitarian and infrastructure development assistance to Armenia and Karabagh. Since 1991, Armenia Fund has rendered more than $200 million in development aid to Armenia and Karabagh.
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