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UMAF activities in Armenia
Our activities in Armenia
For many years, UMAF provides an important aid to Armenia and Karabakh, including training of doctors, but also by sending medical equipment and medicines.
During the Soviet era in 1979, UMAF receives the first doctors of Armenia came to France to perfect in urological surgery. Similarly, a mission led by Dr. Képénékian went to Armenia, always urology.
Relations between Armenia and UMAF really started following the earthquake in Spitak. The UMAF in association with SOS Armenia, Médecins Sans Frontières, Médecins du Monde, carried out the collection and shipment of drugs and equipment. Many doctors of the association went on the field to help first aid and first aid.
By donations collected during its annual ball, UMAF was able to create a pharmacy in Karabakh in 1990. With the fall of the USSR and the Declaration of Independence, noting the difficulties facing the country, UMAF s' organizes for aid settles over time. Medical and dental clinic is established in Vanadzor. Physicians and dentists of UMAF succeed each and lavish their care for orphans of the earthquake. The UMAF undertakes to repatriate wounded the Karabakh war and make them operate in Armenia, some in France. A Erebuni Hospital is created a pediatric ENT department under the leadership of Professor Garabedian. The team UMAF service, as doctors and nurses. This service was inaugurated in November 1992. UMAF also renovates the other medical and surgical services and is sending equipment such electrocautery, ENT equipment, urinary surgery, anesthetic equipment.
The UMAF involved in other hospitals such as Mikaelian Institute and Hospital Malatya. Cooperation with Mikaelian Institute intensifies, a central oxygen is installed. In 1995 some surgeons are trained in laparoscopic surgery (surgery closed belly, working under video control).
Sending continuous material, the partnership with the Beaujon hospital allows many surgeons come to perfect in France. More than 150 doctors and nurses have been trained in hepatobiliary gastrointestinal surgery.
Sponsored by the Professor Léon Doursounian SOSMains program has trained two orthopedists, over 400 consultations and 200 surgical procedures free.
Training coeliochiorurgie digestive continues with a friend of UMAF Jean Renaut. Appendectomies, interventions hiatal hernia and bladder, and for the first time, a colon cancer were operated by this technique.
Training of dentists continues. Doctors Aboulian Der Sarkissian and lavish courses regularly Mikaelian Institute. Thirty practitioners have received their training, particularly in periodontics.
In connection with "Hope for Armenia" UMAF fully fund medical and paramedical of Medicine and Dental clinic Spitak, 9 people in total. The clinic is regularly visited, medicines and dental supplies are regularly sent. More than 4,200 consultations are performed each year.
The intervention UMAF maternity Gyumri helped them significantly lower infant mortality.
A Norashen, a small village in Karabakh, the population was expelled gradually returned to settle. Our friend Ara Aharonian has built a clinic. The UMAF is responsible for its operation ensuring wages of a nurse and a doctor by sending medicines.
Operation: "Glasses for Armenia" was initiated by youth UMAF. It was, in remote villages of the big cities, practice exams view, manufacture and distribute free eyeglasses for needy campaigns. Allaverdi in 2004, then in 2005 Ashtarak, over 2200 tests to have been made, and almost as many pairs of glasses manufactured locally and distributed to patients. This operation was continued successively in Karabakh Stepanakert to Chambarak then Stepanavan and Lori region.
With a dental chair, UMAF chose to equip the Military Hospital Yerevan-art dental chair so that soldiers and their families can be treated according to European standards. On the other hand, many of our colleagues went to Armenia to teach our techniques work. A supply of dental medical equipment is initiated for barracks province. A draft "dental bus" is under consideration.