YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Yerevan's St. Gregory the Illuminator and St. Mother of God medical centers have been repaired with World Bank's funds. As Armen Soghoyan, the Head of the Healthcare and Social Security Department of Yerevan Mayor's Office, said at the December 10 press conference, construction work of 120m drams (nearly 400 thousand dollars) was done, modern medical equipment of 545m drams was placed at the St. Gregory the Illuminator medical center. And construction work of 720 thousand dollars was done, equipment of 1.9m dollars was placed at the St. Mother of God medical center. A. Soghoyan also said that Yerevan Mayor's Office has reached agreements with Los Angeles, Berlin and Nice hospitals for the purpose of continuing reforms in the healthcare sphere. In particular, according to the agreement reached with one of Berlin's hospital networks, exchange of specialists will be done, as well as medical service of patients will be organized there. It was also mentioned that medicines of 1.5m dollars have been also received by Los Angeles structure of the United Armenian Fund. The medicines were given to Yerevan medical institutions. A new batch of medicines will be received by the end of the year.

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