MILITARY UNIT’S MEDICAL SERVICE – IN THE MIDST OF REFORMS

Interview with RA AF Military-medical Department head Colonel Kamavor Khachatryan

Medical service of the armed forces has gone a long way of development and improvement, and at different times, according to circumstances, solved different problems. Currently our activities are primarily aimed at improving the medical service of the military unit. Secondly, it is needed to improve the level of training of military medical units. Among the current plans are: to change regulations to ensure and improve the overall equipment. We need to improve both the quality of military medical education and training of medical staff.

Doctors of military unit periodically go on training, so diagnosis of the disease and the quality of first aid were as high as possible.

I’m pleased to say that in recent years the applicants to Military Medical Faculty enter university with higher grades than applicants of other faculties. To make the study at this faculty more effective, we introduce new methods. In the education sphere, we collaborate with Greece, Germany, Italy, France, USA, China and Russia, both in professional training and long-term education. Each year, 70-80 military medics are retrained in the best civilian clinics of Armenia, and nurses are also retrained.

Interview by GAYANEH POGHOSYAN