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GOVERNMENT’S DECISION STRONGLY OBJECTED BY ARMENIAN DOCTORS ASSOCIATION

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Armenian Doctors Association convened a news conference on Monday to express its concern about the government decision made Nov 19, under which doctors having academic degrees will fulfill compulsory national service duties in Armenian army.

The Association chair Parunak Zelveyan listed all arguments against that. He said throughout the decade Medical University had graduated military doctors.

He also disagrees with a statement that there are special conditions in the army for continuing their scientific researches.

Zelveyan voiced alarm at mounting death rate in the republic. He finds it wrong “to use the whole extent of republic’s science-related human resources to plug a hole in a single system”.

In his opinion, today practical doctors are abundant in the army while, thanks to the new decision, Armenia will be unable to create update public-health-care system.

Last year, defense minister Serge Sargssyan proposed the amendments to the military service law that oblige all universities’ graduates to serve in army regardless of their post-graduate study. The government was then reluctant to abandon their plan because of vigorous student protest prompted by it.