YEREVAN, 19 OCTOBER, NOYAN TAPAN-ARMENIANS TODAY: The 8th national scientific-medical congress entitled "Man's Health" is being held in Yerevan under the slogan "Armenia-Russia: Medicine without Borders" at the National Institute of Health of the RA Ministry of Health on October 13-16. The congress features a conference with the theme "Potential of the Diaspora in the health maintenance of the populations of both countries" and presiding the conference are member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor, well-known plastic and cancer surgeon, lung specialist Arnold Adamyan and deputy chairman of the national health institute, Professor Yuri Tunyan. Throughout the congress and the conference, there will be speeches and lectures on the technologies and the experience in the most different theoretical and practical spheres of medicine, mapping and reference systems for countries. In response to the questions by "NOYAN TAPAN", vice-chairman on instruction at the National Health Institute, chairman of the Armenian Association of Conventional Medicine Mkrtich Avagyan mentioned that the coordinated partnership between Armenian and Russian-Armenian doctors started 5-6 years ago when they began to hold joint "open house days" within the framework of the Days of the Union of Armenians of Russia in Armenia. The event reached out to nearly 2,000 patients from Yerevan and the regions of Armenia. According to Avagyan, the scientific-medical congress enhances the cooperation between Armenian, Russian and Russian-Armenian doctors by gradually including the field of preparation of specialists. Avagyan says that the event will go on to become annual. The vice-chairman of the institute added that the Health Ministries of Russia and Armenia are currently holding talks on preparing an all-embracing contract between both countries. "We must not forget about the fact that there are hundreds of well-known doctors and scientists working in Russia with whom cooperation may develop with the status established at the state level," said Avagyan, adding that there are more Armenian doctor-professors in Russia than in Armenia. Let us mention that the 8th "Man's Health" national scientific-medical congress under the slogan "Armenia-Russia: Medicine without Borders" is organized by the RA Ministry of Diaspora, the national health institute of the RA Ministry of Health, the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development, the Union of Armenians of Russia, the Armenian Association of Public Health and the "Man's Health" humanitarian fund. Exhibitions for pharmacology and medical technologies are being held within the framework of the congress.

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