Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan received transplant surgeon Nizam Mamudi, who has arrived in Armenia from the United Kingdom (UK); Ben Ivory, head of the National Education Clinical Lead for Organ Donation with UK National Health Service Blood & Transplant; and leading Armenian specialists in this field.

The goal is to develop and implement guidelines and specific steps aimed at advancing this very important area of donor transplantation in Armenia.

As part of the cooperation, training — both in theoretical and practical formats — on brain death diagnosis will be conducted for Armenia’s doctors. The training will be led by the aforesaid UK specialist.

During the meeting, the importance of a professional approach — from public awareness to communication with relatives and surgical technique — in this very sensitive field was emphasized, and this is precisely the aim of this cooperation with these specialists.