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Rural Clinics

The AAMS has also established clinics in three villages that border with Karabagh and Azerbaijan-Aregouni in 2005; Pokr Mazrik in 2006; Tsapatagh in 2007 in order to make the war-torn region more habitable. These clinics have alleviated a tremendous burden for these villages that are largely populated by refugees from Karabagh, as the closest health facilities could be as many as eight hours away. Each clinic has a full-time nurse who provides care to patients throughout the week, and a physician visits each clinic at least once a week. The clinic in Aregouni also provides dental care to patients. The clinics are managed by the region (marz) and the mayor (marzbed), and the federal government pays the salaries for the physicians and nurses. In 2008, the AAMS began construction of a fourth clinic in the remote northeastern village of Voskevan, which has been in dire need of a medical clinic for fifteen years.

The AAMS has also created a program through which the organization will sponsor residents and physicians to volunteer in Armenia on a one-month to three-month basis and make rounds among the three clinics. There, they will have the opportunity to teach the local doctors about advances in medicine and serve their people through their profession, while giving the AAMS a first-hand account of the progress these clinics are making.

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