YEREVAN. – With the order of Armenia’s Labor and Social Affairs Minister Artem Asatryan, Medical-Social Expertise Agency Director Mikayel Vanyan has been discharged from his post.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry’s consultation meeting is concerning the terrible facts that exist in the domain of issuing a disability status, Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan stated during this consultation on Wednesday.      

In his words, the Prime Ministerial Service of Control has surfaced awful facts, according to which 65,000-70,000 people in Armenia undergo a medical-social examination every year, and money is demanded from them for the issuance of a disability status.    

“Now, when a there is a fight against corruption, this is discovered in the public services sector. I [hereby] demand the immediate dismissal of the head of the services and making personnel changes,” the PM stressed.     

Also, Tigran Sargsyan noted that there is corruption everywhere in this domain and even though there are some exceptions, the exception proves the rule.