HEALTH

Thanks to the support of friends and supporters, BAFA's medical programs have achieved stellar results. Our successes have been in various areas. To date, our Board of Directors has solicited and secured the support of several companies whose donations of medical supplies and equipment have exceeded 2.5 million dollars. This sum represents discounted price estimates, which we could not otherwise afford. The funds donated by our friends and supporters have covered the cost of transportation of our packaged goods to the warehouse of the UAF. In turn, the UAF has shipped them to Armenia free of charge.

BAFA funds raised for the health programs have made it possible for 5 surgeons to be trained in the USA. Three were trained in Trauma Surgery and two in orthopedic surgery. All these were completed at the University of California in San Francisco's departments of general surgery and orthopedic surgery. The last trainee spent 15 months as a senior resident at UCSF/SFGH taking calls and fully participating with his American colleagues, thus getting a tremendous training that no other surgeon in all of the ex-soviet countries ever had. He did return to Yerevan and is now the chief arthroscopic and reconstructive surgeon in a new hospital at the "Saint Nerses the Great Medical Center" in Yerevan. His predecessor trainee, also by us in San Francisco, had a similar position at  "Erebuni" hospital in Yerevan.

We are very proud of our physicians who are gaining the reputation of being the best in their field. Our model training program yields benefits well beyond the individual physician whose knowledge is multiplied and positively impacts the standard of medical health in Armenia in general.

Finally, physician members of our board have been in constant contact, by phone fax and recently by e-mail, where our trainees send their consultation along with scanned x-rays, to have opinions for the management of complex and problematic patient cases.

Example Pictures of Medical Activities

One on one teaching of Orthopedist, with general practitioner looking on.

Performing knee arthroscopy at MARASH ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE
in Nork district of Yerevan.

Operating with Chief Orthopedist at the CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL
in Yerevan.

Conference attendees (Orthopedists and Medical Students) in
EREBUNI MEDICAL CENTER.