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 VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of “Mobile TeleSystems”, announces the Company’s General Manager Ralph Yirikian and BirthLink NGO director Kathy Mellor, as well as a group of neonatologists, visited the Yerevan Institute of Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology

For the fourth year now VivaCell-MTS supports BirthLink NGO in its efforts to reduce the level of infant mortality in our country. Within this period of time, the equipment for a total of about AMD 298 million has been installed in 23 medical centers of Yerevan and the regions. The specialists say the positive results are already obvious.

The Yerevan Institute of Perinatology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology has more than three and a half thousand births each year, and receives women with high risk pregnancies and complications not only from Yerevan, but many regional centers as well. In addition many babies with complications after delivery will be transferred to this hospital because of the dedicated equipment available for sick babies.

An increasing number of babies are now being admitted to the neonatal department and the demand far outweighs the equipment available. Therefore this year more intensive care cots, monitors and an additional ventilator have been supplied to the Institute to support an increasing number of babies needing special care.

“Our joint project with BirthLink continues because we believe in life and we believe that every new born deserves to be given the chance to be alive. This hospital receives cases from all over Armenia and today it ready to help saving more lives. VivaCell-MTS is happy to be a part of a project that injects life to our country and that gives hope for a better life”, says VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian.

Every year, more than 4 million infants die in the first year of life. 98 percent of the cases are registered in the developing countries. 65 percent of lethal cases are registered within the first month, with two third of them – during the first week, and more than half – within the first 24 hours after the birth. The World Health Organization says the level of infant mortality in Armenia exceeds the level in countries like US and Great Britain for four times.