The Board of Trustees’ members of the Health Fund for Children of Armenia have reaffirmed the list of diseases that the fund has been and will continue to support in terms of treatment and management. These include:
- childhood cancer or blood problems (in all cases when the child’s treatment must be carried out in foreign medical institutions),
- kidney or liver transplant
- chronic respiratory problems
- immune system disorders
- other life threatening diseases
As a result of a corresponding analysis, the Fund’s Board of Trustees made a decision to include the following diseases within its support framework, diseases that the Fund has so far only provided limited episodic support for:
- severe neurological problems: encephalitis (autoimmune)
- visceral leishmaniasis
- aplastic anemia
- immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)
The number of beneficiaries receiving support from the Fund in all these areas will be about 1,800 children annually.
It was also decided during the meeting that the Fund will continue to focus its efforts on institutionalizing these new strategic directions and actively collaborate with the government so that it takes on the medical expenses of children facing serious illnesses. The Fund will also pay great attention and exert sufficient efforts towards the implementation of early detection and prevention programs for these diseases.
