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CHIEF OF MILITARY MEDICAL DIRECTORATE OF THE ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES SACKED
YEREVAN, January 18. / ARKA /. Armenian defense minister Seyran
Ohanian has fired the chief of the Military Medical Directorate of the
Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel Artashes Parsadanyan, following reports
of several non-combat deaths of conscripts at military hospitals from
various diseases.
The latest was Armenak Lazarian who died on Thursday morning from
acute cardio-respiratory failure at the Central Military Hospital. He
was preceded by Norayr Sahakyan who died last December in a military
hospital.
Speaking at a news conference today the minister said prosecutors
opened criminal investigations into both cases. Ohanian said also
the people who are responsible for a traffic incident on January 16
that killed one serviceman, Arthur Gevorkian and wounded an officer,
will also be punished. At the same time, the minister said progress
in the work of the military medical service is evident.
"A set of studies conducted in 2012 show that that the sickness rate
in the army has dropped, mainly because of preventive measures,"
he said. -0-
YEREVAN, January 18. / ARKA /. Armenian defense minister Seyran
Ohanian has fired the chief of the Military Medical Directorate of the
Armenian Armed Forces, Colonel Artashes Parsadanyan, following reports
of several non-combat deaths of conscripts at military hospitals from
various diseases.
The latest was Armenak Lazarian who died on Thursday morning from
acute cardio-respiratory failure at the Central Military Hospital. He
was preceded by Norayr Sahakyan who died last December in a military
hospital.
Speaking at a news conference today the minister said prosecutors
opened criminal investigations into both cases. Ohanian said also
the people who are responsible for a traffic incident on January 16
that killed one serviceman, Arthur Gevorkian and wounded an officer,
will also be punished. At the same time, the minister said progress
in the work of the military medical service is evident.
"A set of studies conducted in 2012 show that that the sickness rate
in the army has dropped, mainly because of preventive measures,"
he said. -0-