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  • Prisoner Starts a Hunger Strike: No Doctors in Vanadzor Prison, Says

    Prisoner Starts a Hunger Strike: No Doctors in Vanadzor Prison, Says
    Prisoner's Mother

    01.27.2015 15:06 epress.am


    Prisoner Armen Hakobyan has announced an indefinite hunger strike at
    the Vanadzor prison, said the prisoner's mother Lusabek Hakobyan to
    Epress.am. The reason behind the hunger strike, is because Hakobyan is
    suffering from meningoencephalitis which he obtained in prison.
    According to Hakobyan's mother, they conducted surgery on him,
    however, hey transferred him back to the Vanadzor prison before the
    treatment was complete. "The thing is that the Vanadzor Penitentiary
    Facility does not have doctors, it only has paramedics," said
    Hakobyan.

    The prisoner has a doctor in Yerevan, however, the latter refuses to
    go to Vanadzor so frequently to inspect the patient. After having a
    surgery on his head, Hakobyan has to submit various blood samples and
    has to undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging, which technically is
    impossible in the Vanadzor prison.

    The RA Ministry of Justice Penitentiary Department`s Public relations
    division head Gor Ghlechyan told Epress.am that Armen Hakobyan
    underwent surgery and was under the doctors' supervision for a long
    time. However, based on the information about his condition, the
    commission decided that he could continue his treatment with
    medication in prison.

    http://www.epress.am/en/2015/01/27/prisoner-starts-a-hunger-strike-no-doctors-in-vanadzor-prison-says-prisoner%E2%80%99s-mother.html

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