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  • Minister Calls For Whistleblowers Of Psychiatric Facilities To Call

    MINISTER CALLS FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS OF PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES TO CALL POLICE

    11.03.2014 18:53 epress.am

    The Minister of Health, Armen Muradyan, advised whistleblowers to reach
    out to law enforcement when hearing about human rights violations at
    psychiatric facilities, especially cases when patients are hit or were
    forced to work. The Minister spoke about the situation of psychiatric
    facilities in the National Assembly while commenting on a question
    by an Epress.am journalist about the results of an investigation done
    by human rights defenders at six psychiatric facilities.

    Recall, the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office released
    report about psychiatric facilities, concluded that 84 out of 136
    patients said that they were subject to physical deterrence and 75
    said that they were subject to forced labor.

    "Such statements are considered to imply about a criminal act. The
    whistleblowers must inform law enforcement. Or if they are stating
    that the psychiatric facility's director has privatized the patient's
    apartment or the patient has been beaten or of other human rights
    violations, we will follow those issues," said the Minister.

    The Minister assured that he gave the psychiatric directors clear
    instructions to apply to the courts demanding compensation for medical
    misconduct, and demand to present the statement's basis. "If they
    don't deny that such incidents occur, of course, there will be an
    appropriate administrative decision and a criminal decision at once
    if those statements are confirmed by the side of law enforcement,"
    said Armen Muradyan.

    To the question of whether such a human rights violation has been
    revealed and that if staff members have been punished for it,
    the minister said that the psychiatric activities will be stricter,
    reports are being prepared, while administrative fines are sanctioned
    when their work is insufficient to the demands.

    Referring to the question, that human rights defenders often criticize
    the psychiatric facilities patient's lack of necessary expensive
    medicine, Muradyan answered, "the issue of technical upgrades at
    the psychiatric facilities is a global issue. It is not possible
    to continue to manipulate the issue. Continuing to manipulate it is
    not realistic, or it gives room to think that there is a tendentious
    approach to the issue."

    http://www.epress.am/en/2014/11/03/minister-calls-for-whistleblowers-of-psychiatric-facilities-to-call-police.html

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