Video. Armenia’s unique salt mine asthma clinic faces closure as funds dry up
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“Opened in 1987, Armenia’s Republican Centre of Speleotherapy has, for decades, welcomed patients with respiratory illnesses into tunnels carved deep into rock salt”
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“Once treating more than 300 people a year, the 4,000-square-metre facility now reportedly sees only around 50 patients annually after losing state funding in 2019–2020”
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— 300 is a 2006 American epic historical action film directed by Zack Snyder, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon. It is based on the 1998 Dark Horse comic book limited …
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— Curtis James Jackson III (born July 6, 1975), known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, television producer, record executive, and businessman. Born in Queens, a borough of New Yo…
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“Armenian health authorities say spending has shifted towards treatments backed by stronger scientific evidence and aimed at more life-threatening diseases”
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“Doctors at the centre insist that speleotherapy should be viewed as a complementary therapy rather than a replacement for conventional medicine”
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“Officials are now exploring private investment to preserve the site, possibly as a research or medical-tourism centre”
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