Reports on Environment and Urban Development for Alaverdy

GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Table 4.1: Diseases registered in Alaverdi in the period of 2004-2008 # Type of disease 2004 2008 1 Tumors 70 110 2 Respiratory organs 31 86 3 Nervous diseases 211 446 4 Blood circulation 1127 1398 including: blood pressure 286 707 stenocardia 44 94 disturbances of cerebral blood circulation 76 140 vascular diseases of limbs 37 76 other 684 381 5 Dermatological 132 515 6 Infections 21 80 It is worth mentioning, that in 2008 Government increased the subsidies for the some medical services provided in Alaverdi, which contributed to some increase in the number of patients. However, the actual number of patients studied in Alaverdi Health Center in 2004-2008 has increased drastically by 1.5 times. The trends in increase of the number of cases are related to infectious diseases, tumors, respiratory disturbances. The number of nervous diseases has increased signi fi cantly, almost twice. It might be mentioned that there is increase in the cases of diseases related to blood circulation. Table 4.1 shows the 2004-2008 statistics of the Alaverdi Health Center. The impact of the environment on the population of Alaverdi is quite better observed in the analysis performed by the Supervisor of the Republican Oncological Statistical Group of the National Center of Oncology, Doctor P. Poghosyan. 14 The analysis has been performed for the cities of Alaverdi and Gavar. The latter is similar toAlaverdi by its population and territory; however, the difference is that Gavar has never been an industrial center. The population in this city has mainly been busy with agriculture, cattle breeding and organization of leisure on the shores of Lake Sevan. There have been no large industrial facilities in Gavar. In ecological sense the atmosphere in Gavar, the water and soil resources are relatively cleaner, but it lacks forested areas. Lung, stomach and throat cancer diseases have been observed in these two cities in 1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2006-2008. The selection of the year is conditioned by the period of activity and standstill of the ACP plant (the standstill period was 1989-1996). At the same time, the data has been calculated for cases per 100000 people. The data is presented in Table 4.2, below.

14 The analysis has been made by the request and initiative of the author in 2009.

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CHAPTER 4. IMPACT OF THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Knowledge for Change