US Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills cuts the ribbon at a lab in Martuni
YEREVAN””Residents s in Martuni, Kapan, and Vanadzor are safer today thanks to the construction of laboratories designed to track, monitor, and fight infections.
The labs ”” constructed by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, provided with new technology, and updated to meet modern seismic safety standards ”“ are part of the Ministry of Health’s National Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
On October 16, 2017, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills, Jr., joined Minister of Health Levon Altunyan to open the Ministry’s Gegharkunik Marz Laboratory in Martuni. The Gegharkunik facility ”“ one of three laboratories built this year by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) ”“ is a sustainable facility that increases Armenia’s ability to ensure biosafety and biosecurity, protecting people and animals from disease.
“This new facility will allow Armenian scientists to do their job safely and effectively ”” to respond to any potential infectious disease outbreaks that could threaten Armenia’s citizens, its livestock, its economic livelihood, or national security,”
