ArmInfo. In the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet. A.Spendiarian held the opening ceremony of the 5th International Congress of Armenian Doctors. The opening ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Health Minister Arsen Torosyan.
According to the chairman of the 5th congress, Professor Ara Charchyan, more than 500 doctors, including professors and academicians, from 20 countries of the world arrived to participate in the congress. For the first time, physicians from the regions of Armenia and Artsakh also take part in it.
This year's event in its format will be highlighted by a number of factors, in particular, there will be an emphasis on combining the potential of local doctors and diaspora doctors to expand interaction. On the site under the slogan "Armenia - Diaspora - Artsakh: the union in the name of health", it is expected that the Armenian physicians from around the world will gather and summarize the work of the past years. They will share their professional experience about the latest achievements in the field of medicine. From July 4 to July 6 plenary and professional sessions, seminars and satellite conferences will be held. A feature of the congress this year will be the holding of remote conferences in the online mode, which has already been held in previous days, in particular, in Artsakh and Gyumri. In total, 26 distance seminars, 13 plenary lectures and 27 sectional hearings are scheduled to be held at the congress.
The main areas of work of the congress will be public health, medical education and health policy, digitization of the field, practical health care, pharmacology and pharmaceuticals.