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PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
PRESS RELEASE
Thessaloniki, 10/12/2004

2004 has been a record year in restoring health and hope to thousands of Hellenes and their neighbors in the former Soviet Republics and Albania.  Now in its seventh year of direct service, the Primary Health Care Initiative, that was established by SAE President, Mr. Andrew A. Athens, has helped more than 600,000 people and provided over 2 million patient services.
For the first 10 months of 2004,105,000 people have received quality medical care through more than 341,725 patient services that have been conducted by the over 200 health care professionals working in SAE�s six clinics, five mobile units and 32 nurses� stations. 
Medical mobile units in Alaverdi, Armenia, Tbilisi, Georgia, and Mariupol, Ukraine, are now traveling four days per week instead of once a week.
With a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), SAE is conducting three new health care projects in addition to the PHCI services officered in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.  The goal of each project is to provide health awareness and education, restore medical services to deprived areas and conduct ongoing medical training for local health care professionals.
In Armenia and Georgia, SAE has renovated12 government health posts that were in disrepair and could not operate because of unsafe and unsanitary conditions.  SAE has also repaired two broken water pipe lines in Armenia that have restored fresh water to villages that had no source of clean water has conducted more than 75 training sessions, on such topics as diagnosis and treatment of ulcers and other digestive disorders, cardiovascular disease, pediatric care and infectious diseases.
SAE has been conducting a HIV/AIDS prevention project targeting young people through peer group counseling and a major media campaign in Mariupol and a site for AIDS. Soon the unique new mammography center in Mariupol will begin operating at full capacity while the Medical Center in Tbilisi has been equipped with modern medical machines.
To date SAE has distributed nearly $70 million worth of medicines, medical supplies and equipment. In September 2003, SAE initiated a food distribution program. Three additional shipments have been sent thus far in 2004 to Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. SAE is also working with Counterpart International, a US non-governmental organization with an extensive food distribution program to expand its food distribution program.
The new health care center in Georgoutsates, Albania, dedicated in November 2003, is averaging 500 patients per month, conducting some 160 ultrasound exams and 80 X-rays each month.  More than 500 laboratory tests are also conducted each month. 
Future Actions
SAE has started a needs assessment for S. Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and Africa in order to begin medical programs and the distribution of humanitarian aid.
In 2005 the works for the first SAE Medical Center in Stavropol, S. Russia will begin, a project announced by the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Kostas Karamanlis during his recent trip in Moscow.


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