Tuesday, June 1 2021 11:07

ArmInfo.Head of the Ministry of Health of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan asks for forgiveness from relatives in connection with improper storage of the remains of those  who laid down their heads for their homeland during the 44-day Karabakh war.

Thus, Avanesyan's statement reads in particular: "Dear compatriots,  first of all, I want to apologize to the relatives for improper  storage of bodies and remains registered yesterday at the Abovyan  branch of the Center for Forensic Medical Examination. My omission  was that after some travels, I personally did not visit the center  and was not convinced of the details of the storage conditions for  the bodies.

I assure you that over the past year, the Forensic Medical Center has  made every effort to ensure the process of conducting forensic  examinations and identifying bodies.

As it was reported yesterday in the statement of the RA Ministry of  Health, an official investigation will be carried out into the fact  with the corresponding consequences. I should also note that the  Ministry has always worked to provide transparent information and is  always in touch with the relatives of the victims.  Today, the Center  for Forensic Medicine will again publish information on the results  of the examination of bodies and remains. I would also like to  emphasize that the bodies and remains have already passed the  examination, and information on the results has always been available  to relatives. " It should be noted that the day before relatives of  the missing persons during the 44-day Karabakh war blocked Heratsi  Street in Yerevan (at the intersection of Heratsi and Koryun streets  there is the capital's central morgue). According to them, the  authorities hid the bodies of more than 200 victims in refrigerators  for a long time to avoid unnecessary noise.

After that, photographs were posted on the network, where it can be  seen that the bodies of the dead servicemen are stored in a plastic  bag in the morgue of the city of Abovyan in improper conditions.  In  this regard, the Ministry of Health was forced to issue a statement  in which it confirmed the storage of bodies and remains in the  basement of the Center in the city of Abovyan (National Pulmonology  Center SNCO). "Some relatives expressed a desire to move the remains  examined and identified in the branch of the forensic medical center"  Scientific and Practical Center for Forensic Examination "in the city  of Abovyan, which were temporarily stored in a basement with  heat-insulated walls. Despite the fact that moving the remains is  inexpedient and current conditions of their storage correspond to the  requirements, we decided to meet the wishes of the parents and move  them to the refrigerator section of another forensic medical center.  The remains passed the appropriate identification procedure, and we  are waiting for their relatives to take them for burial, "the  Ministry of Health assured.