On the heels of implementing a two-year renovation program that thoroughly refurbished the Hadrut Regional Hospital in Nagorno Karabakh, the Hayastan All Armenian Fund completed a major equipment-upgrade project at the institution. The initiative, worth 17,500,000 drams (just over U.S. $57,000), was sponsored by the Armenia Fund U.S. Western Region. Patient wards, staff quarters, and technical facilities alike benefited from the project, which provided the hospital with beds, mattresses, sofas, chairs, television sets, refrigerators, air-conditioning units, and various medical equipment. Built in 1982, the Hadrut Regional Hospital had been in a state of disrepair since the 1990s, with rundown facilities and the lack of ambulances making it an ongoing challenge to ensure adequate healthcare to the area’s 12,000 residents. The Hayastan All Armenian Fund’s renovation program, launched in 2007, revamped and modernized the hospital and furnished it with an urgently needed fleet of ambulances. Among the improvements is the hospital’s new laboratory, which has been operational since December 2008. Furthermore, by financing the construction of the 22-kilometer Togh-Hadrut gas pipeline, which was completed this year, the Hayastan All Armenian Fund made it possible for the hospital, as well as 5,000 residents of seven nearby villages, to be supplied with natural gas, informed PR Department of All-Armenian Fund.