TAKING CARE OF PUBLIC HEALTH CONSIDERED AS MATTER OF
NATIONAL SECURITY IN ARMENIA
06-04-2007 17:55:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN. This year's motto of World
Health Day, April 7, is "Let's Build a Secure Future by Making
Investments into Health." As Elizabeth Danielian, Head of
Armenian Office of World Health Organization (WHO), said at the
April 6 press conference, healthcare systems are links of
control over possible healthcare or security crisis. In her
words, weak and unready healthcare system becomes the weak link
of the response chain and hampers implementation of efficient
measures.
RA Deputy Minister of Health Tatul Hakobian said that one
of the main directions of policy adopted by the Ministry should
be public health, the main responsible of which, however, is not
only the Ministry. "Taking care of public health should be the
result of cooperation of various departments and individuals,"
the Deputy Minister said. He called all structures,
entrepreneurs, individuals for making more investments in the
healthcare system, which is the guarantee of healthy future of
the next generation.
Lilit Avetisian, Head of State Hygienic and
Anti-epidemiological Inspection's Infectious and Non-infectious
Diseases Department, said that taking care of public health has
been always considered as a matter of national security in
Armenia. She said that RA bill "On Providing Security of Public
Health" has been worked out. The bill, in particular, includes points
regarding agitation of healthy way of life, implementation of
hygienic education, compulsory medical examination. L. Avetisian
also said that there are primary healthcare problems in the
country: in particular, the Ministry implements a number of
measures for liquidating the local cases of those diseases.