ArmInfo. President of the Armenian Parliament Ara Babloyan, who is a pediatric urologist by profession, plans to work in the healthcare field after leaving office. He stated this in an interview with journalists at an international conference on pediatric surgery and neurosurgery.
In turn, Minister of Healthcare Arsen Torosyan at the opening ceremony of the conference said that in recent years the infant mortality rate has decreased by one third. Armenia is among the countries with the lowest level of child mortality, he stressed. At the same time, the Minister noted that the main cause of infant mortality is accidents.
It should be noted that the International Conference on Pediatric Surgery and Neurosurgery was launched in Yerevan. It involves professionals from Russia, Moldova, Romania, Georgia. Among the participants is the President of the Association of Children's Surgeons of Russia Alexander Razumovsky.