Hotline on Hepatitis C Opens in Armenia
20.05.2008,
02:45
The Swiss Roche Company in cooperation with the Arabkir Medical Centre has opened a hotline on hepatitis C, Hoffmann La Roche Armenia office director Davit Arakelyan said.
YEREVAN, May 19. /ARKA/. The Swiss Roche Company in cooperation with the Arabkir Medical Centre has opened a hotline on hepatitis C, Hoffmann La Roche Armenia office director Davit Arakelyan said.
The hotline telephone number is 54-72-54. The service offers free consultation and examination for revelation of both antibodies and a hepatitis C virus, said Marine Hovsepyan, Head of the Laboratory Service of the Institute of Children’s and Teenagers’ Health of the Arabkir Medical Centre.
Hepatitis C is a blood-transmitted disease and in 5% cases it is transmitted sexually. The risk group includes drug addicts, blood recipients and medical workers. To some extent, there is a risk of infection at dentist’s and beauty salons.
At the initial stage of the disease people feel quite healthy and the disease is revealed at a more complicated stage of cirrhosis and liver cancer. Only 10%-15% people suffering from hepatitis C get over the disease by themselves. Due to antivirus therapy hepatitis C stopped to be considered incurable as early as eight years ago.--0--
The hotline telephone number is 54-72-54. The service offers free consultation and examination for revelation of both antibodies and a hepatitis C virus, said Marine Hovsepyan, Head of the Laboratory Service of the Institute of Children’s and Teenagers’ Health of the Arabkir Medical Centre.
Hepatitis C is a blood-transmitted disease and in 5% cases it is transmitted sexually. The risk group includes drug addicts, blood recipients and medical workers. To some extent, there is a risk of infection at dentist’s and beauty salons.
At the initial stage of the disease people feel quite healthy and the disease is revealed at a more complicated stage of cirrhosis and liver cancer. Only 10%-15% people suffering from hepatitis C get over the disease by themselves. Due to antivirus therapy hepatitis C stopped to be considered incurable as early as eight years ago.--0--
