YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. 39 doctors and 70 nurses working in Yerevan will be trained to get family doctor's profession during 2007 within the framework of the World Bank credit program on health care system modernization. As Armen Soghoyan, the Chief of the Yerevan Mayor's Office Department for Health Care and Social Security stated at the February 19 press conference, 196 distict therapeutics, pediatricians and 146 nurses were trained till now. A.Soghoyan mentioned that the program of modernization of the Surb Astvatsamayr (The Blessed Virgin) and Surb Grigor Lusavorich (Saint Gregory the Illuminator) medical centers is continued. In his words, it is envisaged to finish this year the reconstruction works of the maternity hospital of the Surb Grigor Lusavorich medical center for which about 500 thousand dollars will be spent. Besides, a boiler-house at the cost of 200 thousand dollars will be built for the polyclinic building of the hospital, and about 30 thousand dollars will be allocated for rendering medical waste materials harmless. It was also mentioned that the construction works of the Surb Astvatsamayr medical center will finish in the spring. Programs on introduction of information technologies and management of waste materials will also be implemented. By the way, the hospital was provided in 2006 with super modern medical equipment.

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