RURAL MEDICINE TO BE DEVELOPED
Support A1+!The health system of countryside in Armenia is in a sad state. The buildings, medical equipment and service level since Soviet times are too stale to satisfy the nowadays’ demands.
The pregnant women of the villages have to go to the near cities for maternity consulting, for which finances are not enough. The number of those enjoying village ambulatory services reduced during the last 10 years. It resulted in negative phenomena, late pre-natal care, confinement under home conditions and increase of infantile and maternal mortality.
By support of USAID a project on improving the health system in rural areas is being executed in Armenia. Prime II project jointly with Armenian Health Ministry initiated the program on consolidation for the system of “Management of Human Resources”.
Those implementing the project will try to increase the role of paramedics, in particular accoucheurs and nurses in all the provinces of Lori District. 60 paramedics will soon be re-trained and acquire new skills and modern equipment to render services to the pregnant women.
