YEREVAN, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN. This year's motto of World Health Day, April 7, is "Let's Build a Secure Future by Making Investments into Health." As Elizabeth Danielian, Head of Armenian Office of World Health Organization (WHO), said at the April 6 press conference, healthcare systems are links of control over possible healthcare or security crisis. In her words, weak and unready healthcare system becomes the weak link of the response chain and hampers implementation of efficient measures. RA Deputy Minister of Health Tatul Hakobian said that one of the main directions of policy adopted by the Ministry should be public health, the main responsible of which, however, is not only the Ministry. "Taking care of public health should be the result of cooperation of various departments and individuals," the Deputy Minister said. He called all structures, entrepreneurs, individuals for making more investments in the healthcare system, which is the guarantee of healthy future of the next generation. Lilit Avetisian, Head of State Hygienic and Anti-epidemiological Inspection's Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases Department, said that taking care of public health has been always considered as a matter of national security in Armenia. She said that RA bill "On Providing Security of Public Health" has been worked out. The bill, in particular, includes points regarding agitation of healthy way of life, implementation of hygienic education, compulsory medical examination. L. Avetisian also said that there are primary healthcare problems in the country: in particular, the Ministry implements a number of measures for liquidating the local cases of those diseases.

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