YEREVAN. – Suren Sahakyan, who is one of the youth that are staging a sit-in across the Armenian capital city Yerevan Municipality building, went to hospital on Wednesday because he is running a high fever.

But this time he went to Yerevan Hospital No. 8, where he will undergo a full medical examination.  

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, sit-in activist Gor Arakelyan had noted that Sahakyan had felt ill all day on Monday. He had tried to withstand, but he was running a high fever in the evening.   

“We called for an ambulance and they took him to [Surb Grigor Lusavorich (Saint Gregory the Illuminator)] hospital; he spent the night there. According to doctors, the problem was sunstroke. The medical center told him that he would either be discharged, or had to undergo paid therapy,” Arakelyan said.    

He further informed that Suren refused the services of this medical institution, and he will decide as to the hospital where he will continue his treatment.  

After being discharged from hospital, Sahakyan visited the other sit-in activists. But his health condition made it impossible for him to stay there for a long time. 

Incidentally, the remaining two sit-in participants informed that they managed to place sunshades on the benches. 

To note, the activists—who are on the thirteenth day of their sit-in—have several demands, which include the dismissals of Municipality Transport Department Chief Henrik Navasardyan and Yerevan Trans Company Director Misak Hambardzumyan.     

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality recent decision to increase the public transport fares in the city had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the Free Car initiative was launched, along the lines of which Armenia’s numerous well-known personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing—with their own vehicles—free transportation to the people.

And on July 25, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive. The activists demand that the persons, who made the decision on raising the transport fares, be brought to account, and those officials, who used violence against and cursed at the activists, be punished.                     

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