During the latest Gyumri City Council session, the chief financial specialist of the city, Lena Jilavyan, appealed to the members of the city council and said that the residents of Gyumri’s sister city, Xian, asked them to send medical supplies. According to the financial specialist, it is difficult to find medical supplies in Xian, China, due to an enormous deficit.
“We are able to spend 2 million AMD to purchase medical supplies and send them to China. By the way, it is also difficult to find these supplies in Armenia. We have asked several pharmacies and medical organizations for help in finding single-use lab coats, plastic overshoes, masks, and gloves. We also asked Razmik Hovhannisyan, who has worked in pharmacies for a long time, to help us find these supplies. He donated 6,000 masks,” the financial specialist said.
The mayor of Gyumri said that they already have gathered 10,000 gloves, 20,000 plastic overshoes, 1,000 lab coats, and 14,230 masks. The cost of gathering these supplies is 1.476 million AMD, including the cost of transportation. The mayor said that they will be sending this humanitarian aid in boxes weighing 320 kilograms. These supplies will reach China in 4-5 days.
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Samvel Balasanyan also said that, if the city council does not accept this decision, he will send the boxes to China himself. He said that he received two letters from Xian asking the residents of Gyumri for their help.
Balasanyan spoke about how the whole world helped Armenia in the aftermath of the Spitak earthquake in 1988.
The medical supplies are beginning to be packaged in one of the rooms of the city hall.
By the way, Samvel Balasanyan said that they are having difficulty finding plastic overshoes. “We only started gathering supplies two days ago, but we can’t find these overshoes. People have already started businesses selling those.”
Nune Arevshatyan
