AGBU Magazine | National Wellness

Resuscitation

A glimpse inside the high-risk “resuscitation terrariums” at two Armenian medical centers

Photographs by Nazik Armenakyan

A nurse comforts a patient.

Medical staff routinely disinfect each other.

Nurses check on a patient in the resuscitation department of Artashat Medical CenterMedical Center.

Tigran Virapyan, 47, is a resuscitator and head of the resuscitation department at the Artashat Medical Center.

Arshak Shahverdyan, 27, is a general surgeon who was re-profiled as an infectious disease specialist to treat COVID-19 patients at the Artashat Medical Center.

Medical staff spend long hours doing paperwork.

Nurses tend to a patient in the intensive care unit of Saint Gregory the Illuminator Medical Center.

Originally published in the March 2021 issue of AGBU Magazine. end character

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