Every Small Town Cannot Have a Well-Equipped Maternity Hospital: Ioannissian

Daniil Ioannissian wrote on his Facebook page: “In Armenia, children should be born in maternity hospitals that are well-equipped in terms of technology and staff. This is one of the main mechanisms for reducing mortality rates among newborns and mothers.

If to achieve that goal, maternity hospitals need to be consolidated and women must be made to travel 20-30 km (especially considering the road conditions laid out by Suren Papikyan), then that should be done. Let’s be honest, not every small town can have a maternity hospital well-equipped with technology and staff.

We need to put an end to the Soviet-era and previous government practices of ‘a polyclinic for the people in the village, and a top-notch hospital for the elite’, and Arsen Torosyan is doing just that.