A medical-social expertise committee has refused to grant a disability status to former conscript soldier, a native of the village of Nerqin Getashen in Armenia\u2019s Gegharkunik province Mnats Sargsyan. The 20-year-old had received a serious fragmentation wound in Karabakh in April 2016, during the four-day escalation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border; he is also from a variety of other serious illnesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy health state is rather bad: there are about 60-70 debris in my body, including the head. I have been examined by a medical committee twice, but I have yet to be granted disability benefits. The last examination also revealed some mental issues. I underwent a treatment at Muratsan [Central Military Hospital in Yerevan] this past September. Later, an examination at the Abovyan hospital found a small tumor on one of \u00a0my lungs. They said it had been there before the army service. I did not know about it,\u201d Mnats Sargsyan told Epress.am on Tuesday. \u00a0The former conscript added that his health \u201cis deteriorating every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fragments in the head cause unbearable pain; the area under my eye is swollen, and it is getting worse every day. Doctors at Muratsan said they wouldn\u2019t want to intervene because removing the fragments was too dangerous. I submitted all necessary papers, but the committee refused to grant me disability status, insisting that my injuries were not permanent,\u201d Sargsyan said.<\/p>\n