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    YOUNG MAN WAS DRAFTED WITH SERIOUS DISEASE
    Suzan Simonyan

    Lragir.am News
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society23640.html
    17:27:28 - 05/10/2011

    Meruzhan Harutiunyan of Yerevan who has been called up to army a few
    months ago is already "based" at the military hospital on Muratsan
    Street. It seems that he has been drafted for an endless medical
    examination rather than for military service. It had begun even before
    the draft.

    After going round hospitals for 6 months, with a diagnosis of an
    incurable disease of his left knee, he was drafted to Martakert, NKR.

    The commander of the battalion noticed that Meruzhan walks with
    difficulty. "I can't understand why they send sick guys to Karabakh.

    Then they will say that they get disabilities in Karabakh," the
    commander told his mother. He advised him to write a letter to
    the minister of defense Seyran Ohanyan. Meruzhan's mother, Rita
    Harutiunyan, had no experience and did not know that she would never
    meet Seyran Ohanyan. For 5 months, she travelled from one edge of the
    city to another, wasting a lot of time and money, but could not even
    meet with the head of the medical department Parsadanyan, let alone
    the minister. Finally, someone told her that the best place to meet
    the minister is the Government where he goes every Thursday.

    She did so. The police did not allow her to approach the minister
    on the first Thursday. But next time Rita was able to speak to the
    minister and explain to him that his son was drafted with a serious
    disease and asked them to at least provide him with treatment. The
    minister saw to it, and two days Meruzhan was taken to the military
    hospital. He was treated there for one month and sent him back to
    the military unit. He travelled between the military unit and the
    hospital for four times.

    As her son was getting worse from these trips between Yerevan and
    Martakert, Rita Harutiunyan again went to the government building and
    asked the minister to listen to her. The minister listened to her,
    and on April 7, 2011 the doctors performed surgery on his knee and
    found that the meniscus was torn.

    On that day, the minister made a great gift to the poor woman. He
    ordered to transfer Meruzhan from Martakert to Masis, which is a small
    town near Yerevan. However, the dean of the office of orthopedics and
    traumatology of the Medical University, Professor Charchyan hindered
    it. He said there is no place in Armenia, and they will take her son
    to Gyumri. The children of rich people are in Yerevan, there is no
    place for my kid, Rita Harutiunyan says.

    In Gyumri, Meruzhan's knee got worse and he was taken back to Yerevan.

    He had surgery and was soon sent back with his leg unable to move. Now
    he is in the military unit. He spends his military service lying in
    bed or sitting, and waiting for the next council of doctors. We made
    an inquiry with the spokesman of the ministry of defense but Davit
    Karapetyan did not answer our phone calls. Perhaps he has nothing
    to say.




    From: A. Papazian
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