The hospital in the town of Etchmiadzin was built in 1972 and hasn’t undergone major renovations since. Much of the medical equipment is decades old. The hospital serves the town of Etchmiadzin and surrounding villages – an overall population of some 120,000. The authorities have always claimed there is no money to modernize the hospital. Estimates place the cost of renovating the hospital at 800 – 900 million AMD (US$1.8 million). Despite...
In the past few years the Armavir Provincial Government has not allocated any funds for health-related projects.
The Artsakh Ministry of Defense reports that a soldier died yesterday at a defensive military outpost from a fatal gunshot wound.