{"id":130779,"date":"2011-09-29T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=130779"},"modified":"2011-09-29T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T05:19:46","slug":"mentally-ill-soldier-released-from-psych-ward-will-be-treated-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/29\/mentally-ill-soldier-released-from-psych-ward-will-be-treated-at-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Mentally Ill Soldier Released from Psych Ward, will be Treated at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hovhannes Vardanyan, the soldier who became mentally ill after serving over a year of his two-year military service in Askeran, Nagorno-Karabakh, 5 days ago was released from the psychiatric clinic in the Yerevan district of Nork where he was being kept. This news was conveyed to Epress.am by the clinic&#8217;s chief doctor Anaida Pavlovna.<\/p>\n<p>Hovhannes&#8217; father, Vardan Vardanyan, told Epress.am that his son is at home, and he sees some positive changes in his health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The important thing is my son can sleep; it&#8217;s true, he sleeps late and wakes early, but he sleeps. The psychologist and psychiatrist have visited twice,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Liana Hovsepyan, a psychiatrist living in the US, has expressed willingness to help them, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She got in touch with us, she said she saw the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/06\/young-army-recruit-admitted-to-psych-ward-says-officers-beat-him-video.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">video<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> and decided to help. It&#8217;s already been 3 months that she&#8217;s been sending [us]\u00a0 medication and let me say that it is quite expensive medication,&#8221; said the soldier&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>Vardan Vardanyan also mentioned that he has no idea how much money has been collected in the campaign to help his son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did a good thing, but I have no information about any money; if I did, I would say that I have it,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Note, on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9 am, a group of youth gathered in Liberty Square and distributed the Ardshininvestbank CJSC account number in which people could transfer funds to support Hovhannes Vardanyan&#8217;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, RA military prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/07\/criminal-case-launched-into-abuse-allegations-of-soldier-admitted-to-psych-ward.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">instructed<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> the launch of a criminal investigation into Hovhannes Vardanyan&#8217;s case after his father, Vardan Vardanyan, charged that his son was beaten while serving in the Askeran military unit. Details of the criminal case have not yet bee made public.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hovhannes Vardanyan, the soldier who became mentally ill after serving over a year of his two-year military service in Askeran&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}