For already five months a state program of delivery aid is conducted in Armenia, according to which each pregnant woman is given an identity card to enjoy any kind of medical services related to pregnancy and obstetric free of charge. But according to the complaints addressed to the special hot line of the Ministry of Healthcare illegal collection of money is still continued at maternity hospitals.

According to the Ministry in July of this year 60 people out of 140 applying to the hot line complained of the medical institutions’ work realizing obstetric.

Karine Saribekyan, head of Mother-Baby Healthcare Department of the Ministry of Healthcare says people have complained of both extortion and confusion caused at medical institutions, particularly in regard to free and paid services.

“The woman is offered a paid ward, telling as if the free ones are busy. Moreover sometimes it is offered also to share a paid ward with another patient. This is illegal and people should be aware of this. In this respect many complaints were especially received to the address of the medical center “Shengavit”,” says Karine Saribekyan.

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Armine Arakelyan, a citizen of Kentron district of Yerevan who pays conscientiously the rates for public services demanded by Kentron condominium every month, wanted once to know what the money collected of the inhabitants is spent on. So she applied to the condominium with a questionnaire made by herself receiving however a denial.

Without delay Armine applied to the court and brought in an action against Kentron condominium.

“It is my right to know what the money is spent on, and if the condominium administration act legally, it won’t be difficult for them to hand information to the habitants,” says Armine.

The court verdict was for Arakelyan and Kentron condominium was obliged to give the information demanded by the citizen, however the condominium managing staff didn’t change their opinion.

“Are we the law victims?” asks Robert Galoyan, head of Kentron condominium. “If so, let all the habitants come and demand an account. And we’ll leave our job and answer their questions. Our state budget is created of the citizens’ taxes. Go and ask the president to give an account. Say that it’s your right and see whether he gives information or not.”

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“Every day President Sargsyan speaks on developing the small and medium size enterprises. Now we are the representatives of that branch, but we are thrown away and the huge area is given to one owner for money making and for only an oligarch getting rich. Maybe later on we would work for him as a slave. But why? I don’t want to give them my property,” says Nikolay Melikyan.

Nikolay is one among those 28 businessmen, who have privatized properties near Botanic Park, an area conterminous to Acharyan Avenue and Tsarav Aghbyur Street. Here there are shops of building materials and car spares, a lot of service centers, but their existence is no longer under threat.

On April 21, 2005 the government came to a decision to separate the mentioned area, 9400square meters, for state needs – for construction. The mayor was assigned to provide realization of the construction projects from 2005 to 2009.

For this reason in July 2006 mayor Yervand Zakharyan adopted Decision 1119-A and assigned the “Investment Project Implementation Unit of Yerevan Construction” (PIU) to realize the construction projects.

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