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STORY: ARMENIA / HEALTH
TRT: 3:02
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARMENIAN / NATS
DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2009, ARAGATC AND YEREVAN, ARMENIA
1. Various shots, Shirine wired
2. Med shot, nurse checking Shirine’s heart
3. Various shots, testing Shirine’s eyes
4. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Shirine Uzuyan, diabetic patient:
“I think every village needs a clinic like this one. We used to have to travel about 16 kilometers to do something like this.”
5. Various shots, baby check-up
6. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Dr. Lala Vagharshakyan, Family Physician:
“Owing to this laboratory and the opportunity of doing various investigations and testing, we are able not only to treat patients properly but also to prevent or do early diagnosis of illnesses, especially of the children.”
7. Various shots, new ward
8. Tilt up, exterior ward
9. Med shot, intensive baby care unit
10. Med shot, premature baby
11. Med shot, baby on oxygen
12. Med shot, life saving machine
13. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Anna Chobanyan, Head of Intensive Care Unit:
“The conditions have significantly changed, both for the patients and for the doctor, we have better facilities to take care of them in a proper way in the more professional way.”
14. Various shots, grandmother with grandson
15. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Rosa Petoyan, Grandmother:
“When I was a young mother I brought my own children here to this hospital for treatment and we didn’t have all these good conditions.”
16. Various shots, CPR training
17. Various shots, meeting
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Narimanyan, Head of Department of Family Medicine, Yerevan Medical University:
“Everything is new for them, very interesting for them, and at the same time, it takes much time and much strength, much efforts, to succeed in this.”
19. Various shots, students
20. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Anne Melikyan, Medical Student:
“I feel myself part of the new generation of family medicine doctors.”
21. Med shot, teacher with students
Sixty-year old Shirine Uzuyan is a diabetic who needs monthly medical checkups and medicines.
That was hard to find in his village of Aragatc in Armenia until the recent construction of the new health clinic he is in here. Shirine now has everything he needs to stay healthy, right at home.
SOUNDBITE (Arnmenian) Shirine Uzuyan, diabetic patient:
“I think every village needs a clinic like this one. We used to have to travel about 16 kilometers to do something like this.”
Armenia is modernizing its health sector through an on-going project to upgrade the country’s health care system. The project – supported by the World Bank – aims at increasing the public’s access to good health services.
Under the Health System Modernization project, Aragatc got its new clinic which has private rooms for patients and is equipped with a laboratory and the necessary tools for testing:
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Dr. Lala Vagharshakyan, Family Physician:
“Owing to this laboratory and the opportunity of doing various investigations and testing, we are able not only to treat patients properly but also to prevent or do early diagnosis of illnesses, especially of the children.”
Armenia has built or restored more than one hundred of its medical clinics under the project, and has renovated hospitals like this one, Surb Astvatsamayr, in the capital, Yerevan.
The hospital’s in-patient departments for adults, intensive care unit, and this ward for premature babies were totally restored under the project which also furnished the hospital with the latest medical equipment such as this machine being used to monitor this seriously-ill child’s heart.
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Anna Chobanyan, Head of Intensive Care Unit:
“The conditions have significantly changed, both for the patients and for the doctor, we have better facilities to take care of them in a proper way in the more professional way.”
Rosa Petoyan is at the hospital with her five-year old grandson, who is sick and waiting for tests. Rosa says things have improved greatly here since she was young.
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Rosa Petoyan, Grandmother:
“When I was a young mother I brought my own children here to this hospital for treatment and we didn’t have all these good conditions.”
An additional component of Armenia’s health project is the retraining of hundreds of the country’s physicians and nurses in family medicine practices.
The project provides essential equipment for the retraining aimed at enabling the already-specialized doctors and nurses to administer family medicine as well, an area Armenia seeks to expand in.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Michael Narimanyan, Head of Department of Family Medicine, Yerevan Medical University:
“Everything is new for them, very interesting for them, and at the same time, it takes much time and much strength, much efforts, to succeed in this.”
Equipment and classes for family medicine are being given to final year medical students as well.
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Anne Melikyan, Medical Student:
“I feel myself part of the new generation of family medicine doctors.”
A new generation, with a renewed health system.
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