Armenia Has Required Resources For Setting Up An International Healthcare Center
YEREVAN, February 18. /ARKA/. Armenia has all the required resources for setting up an international healthcare center, Armenia’s Minister of Trade and Economic Development Nerses Yeritsian in making a speech during the international economic forum “Bridge 2008” in Tsakhkadzor.
Yeritsian reminded that the Government set an objective to establish such a center. The Minister pressed the importance of the discussions on the future of science and technologies, medical and biotechnologies in particular, held recently under the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Particularly, the Minister said that information about research has been provided saying that people live longer, but healthcare expenditures are growing and people are ready to spend them on obtaining cheap but high-quality medical services.
This means that Armenia has all the resources to set up an international center of healthcare, bearing in mind the existing physics institute with serious applications in the sphere of measurements and instrument-making industry, as well as certain abilities in providing high-quality services in the field of tourism, Yeritsian said. The initiative should not be limited within two or three hospitals, he said.
“This should become a common policy of the country, and Armenia can become competitive in the niche of high-technology medical services,” the Minister said.
The fifth International economic forum “Bridge 2008” is held in Tsakhkadzor on February 15-18.