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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2020

Armenia PM on healthcare issues: I haven’t understood that culture of departmental solidarity too well

News.am, Armenia
Jan 30 2020
13:12, 30.01.2020

YEREVAN. – During today’s Cabinet session of the government of Armenia, Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan and some other participants spoke about the forced treatment of people and other issues in the psychiatric institutions of the country. But this did not please Arsen Torosyan, the Minister of Health, and he began to defend the doctors.

Torosyan said that such observations may give the impression that the psychiatric institutions in Armenia are operating systemically wrong, adding that there have always been changes in this field and that the problems are individual.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to this. “I haven’t understood that culture of departmental solidarity too well,” he said. “But we all know that those incidents have happened.”

Arsen Torosyan responded that the situation is improving and he does not want to give the impression that the people in Armenia’s psychiatric institutions are being treated against their will.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS