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Current shipment - April 2009

Our last shipment of medical supplies and equipment to Armenia is on the way. It includes the following pieces:

• Electroencephalography and electromyography machines - for the establishment of the Epilepsy Surgery Centre in Yerevan
• Cardiac defibrillators - to be distributed to hospitals in Armenia
• Dental chairs for our dental clinics in Karabakh
• Medical supplies for our Women's Health Clinic in Karabakh
• Medical books and journals for the Plastic Reconstructive Surgery and Microsurgery University Centre at the University Hospital # 1 of the Yerevan State Medical University
• Neonatal incubators, sent on behalf ot Health Care Armenia, lead by Mrs. Sonia Nanig Artinian of Toronto, to 4 regional hospitals in Armenia

This shipment is made possible due to the unconditional support of Mr. Sarkis Yacoubian of the ICI Inc., the United Armenian Fund (UAF) (and its shipment coordinator Mrs. Nouritza Abujamra), and Dr. Vahag Ghazarian, the Medical Director of Hand-in-Hand NGO in Armenia.

April 2007

The Dental Division of ACMAO has obtained $250,000 worth of dental supplies, where were shipped to our clinics in Karabakh, through the generous help of the United Armenian Fund.

Similar missions are being accomplished by the Dental Division at least once a year.

March 2006

Our most recent shipment to Armenia was the largest since the days after the 1988 Spitak earthquake. It included:

• A full Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, donated by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto through Dr. Berge Minassian, to one of the central hospitals in Armenia
• 6 boxes with medical books for the University Hospital No. 1 and the Armenian Medical Association Libraries
• Dental equipment and supplies for our dental clinics in Karabakh
• A neonatal incubator to be later allocated to one of the hospitals in Armenia
• Furniture for our clinics in Armenia
• Several skids full of medical equipment and supplies
• AGFA SCOPIX 12S x-ray developer
• 2 skids of dental equipment and supplies and 2 skids of hospital furniture for dental clinics and WHC in Karabakh.
• a box with medical supplies and materials to Yerevan's Military Hospital
• a box with medical supplies and materials to Arakadz Clinic in Armenia

May 2005

Our most recent humanitarian shipment included 66 fully functional hospital beds for 6 regional hospitals in Karabakh. Thanks to this project, Karabakh's hospitals will have the best beds among all of South Caucausus!

June 2004

The shipment arrived in Yerevan on Saturday, June 26, 2004. It included a nuclear medicine imaging system, 2 electroencephalographs (EEG) and an ultasound machine. All equipment was sent to the Armenian Medical Association, c/o Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan, until later decision on allocation to local hospitals.

May 2004

In May 2004, our humanitarian shipment included:

• a skid with books, journals and burn care materials for Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan at Plastic Reconstructive Surgery University Centre in Yerevan
• an ultrasound for the Women's Health Care Clinic in Stepanakert, to be opened in late summer 2004
• $40,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies from Mrs. Nanig Artinian and Health Care Armenia, Toronto, Canada, to Dr. Kegham Krikorian at Arakadz Policlinic, Aparan region, Armenia.

September 2003

In September 2003, we sent to Armenia a new shipment worth of around $70,000 CND. This mission was realized with the generous support of Mr. Sarkis Yacoubian, who provides his company's warehouse in Toronto for storage of the donated equipment and pays for transportation to NY, and through the free-of-charge mission of the United Armenian Fund from NY to Toronto.

This shipment included:

• 16 boxes with books and journals for Plastic Reconstructive Surgery University Centre in Yerevan
• Dental supplies for Shushi and Martouni dental clinics in Karabakh
• An ultrasound machine for Hadrout hospital in Karabakh
• 6 computers to Dr. Karen Koloyan, an orthopaedic surgeon in Yerevan, and for the dental clinics in Karabakh
• 36 boxes with medical supplies from Mr. Kevork Kololian in Toronto to Veratsnund Armenian Charity Fund for Spinal Cord Disabled
• 20 boxes of medical supplies from Mrs. Nanig Artinian of Health Care Armenia in Toronto to 4 hospitals in Yerevan and regions of Armenia.

2002-2003

In March 2002, books and journals were sent to the Plastic Reconstructive Surgery & Microsurgery University Centre in Armenia. In July same year, several boxes with medical supplies were sent to the same centre.

In the fall of 2002, our Mrs. Sonia Sarkissian, ACMAO Board Member, was successful in obtaining 7 ventilators with 20 boxes of supplies to them from the Toronto Western Hospital. These donation along with 5 boxes of medical books and journals, in total worth of $ 100,000 US, was sent to Plastic Reconstructive Surgery & Microsurgery University Centre in Yerevan, Armenia in March 2003 with the help of the United Armenian Fund's free shipment from New York to Yerevan. Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan, a reconstructive surgeon of the Centre, took care of distribution of the ventilators and supplies to several hospitals in Armenia and Karabakh, including the Nork-Marash Medical Centre, more widely known as Cardiosurgery Centre under Dr. Hrair Hovagimian's leading, and Republican and Military Hospitals in Karabakh.

In July 2003, the ACMAO members, attending the First International Medical Congress of Armenia on July 1-3, 2003, personally transferred to Armenia 6 sets of very fine microsurgery instruments worth of $30,000 US. There sets were donated by Dr. Gregory Dumanian to Dr. Artur Gevorgyan for the Plastic Reconstructive Surgery & Microsurgery University Centre of the University Hospital No. 1 in Yerevan, Armenia.

One set of instruments was donated by Dr. Gevorg Yaghjyan of the Plastic Reconstructive Surgery & Microsurgery University Centre to the newly established team of microsurgeons in Stepanakert, Karabakh during the visit of the ACMAO and Yerevan doctors' group.

Past missions

During the very busy days of AMWC2001 an opportunity arose to obtain the contents of an entire Branson hospital in Toronto. Our own resources stretched to the limit, we recruited the help of our businessmen colleagues. Through the untiring efforts of Mrs. Susan Kololian, Mr. Kevork Kololian, Mr. Vazken Terzian and Mr. Jirair Torikian, we were able to obtain and transfer the entire Branson hospital.

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