“When everyone becomes responsible for the health of others”

Svetlana Petrosyan, a member of the Alaverdi Enlarged Community Council, is convinced that the best way to fight the new coronavirus is to be able to explain to everyone individually to understand the seriousness of the problem, the real risks, and how to adequately protect oneself from the infection. Guided by this principle, she has been fighting for a year so that the residents of his community do not lose vigilance. It is worrying that the measures related to the pandemic have weakened after the war.

Svetlan Petrosyan has been working at Alaverdi Medical Center for 41 years. She is a nurse, and  with regard to her job she is at risk, but during one year of quarantine she has not been absent from work and has not stopped fighting to prevent the spread of the epidemic, using her as a senior member. She is a resident of the village of Akori, but after working for many years in the field of healthcare, she knows all the residents of the neighboring villages, has close relations with many people, and is sympathetic not only to the residents of her village, but to the entire enlarged community. At the beginning of the pandemic, when there was a lack of information, she organized tours of the villages, explained the dangers of a new infection, urged and required to wear masks and gloves, and, to the best of her ability, helped her fellow villagers get help.

She says that now she does not visit people at their houses, but meeting them in the shop, on the street, in public places, in the transport, she makes sure that everyone has personal protective equipment.

In this regard, it was very important to involve the youth of the community in the fight against the pandemic, who, in agreement with the municipality, sewed more than 4,000 masks. After disinfection at Alaverdi Medical Center, the masks were distributed to the community residents.

The member of the Council of Elders mentions that as a result of the timely work done by the municipality, the outbreak of the epidemic reached their community a little late.

Mrs. Svetlana has always been contacted by her fellow villagers with health problems, but the number of calls has increased during the last year.

Concluding the conversation, she says that she is optimistic and if mass vaccinations are carried out, it will be possible to talk about overcoming the coronavirus.

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