{"id":283928,"date":"2018-03-06T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283928"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:34:56","slug":"armenian-health-ministrys-decision-on-prescription-drugs-illegal-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/03\/06\/armenian-health-ministrys-decision-on-prescription-drugs-illegal-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Health Ministry\u2019s Decision on Prescription Drugs Illegal: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Armenian Health Ministry\u2019s new decision, according to which a vast number of medications &#8211; including antibiotics, hormonal and codeine-containing medicines &#8211; will be sold by prescription only starting March 1, is illegal, Zhoghovurd newspaper writes.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry&#8217;s website has published the lists of drugs and medications that can be purchased with or without a prescription; officials, however, have made no reference to a legal act providing for these lists, since no such act actually exists.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, the government has yet to adopt a corresponding decision, while the Health Ministry has already begun obliging doctors and pharmacies not to issue or sell drugs without a prescription.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a situation envisaged by the RA criminal code in at least two instances &#8211; arbitrariness and abuse of power,\u201d the paper writes.<\/p>\n<p>Zoya Barseghyan, the head of the public relations department of the government, insisted in conversation with Zhoghovurd that the responsibility in this matter lies solely with the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, prime minister Karen Karapetyan is washing his hands of the illegal actions carried out by the ministry,\u201d the paper concludes.<\/p>\n<p>Armenpress, in turn, the Armenian Cabinet will on March \u00a06 discuss the possibility of temporarily suspending the Health Ministry decision.<\/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>According to the paper, the government has yet to adopt a corresponding decision, while the Health Ministry has already begun obliging doctors and pharmacies not to issue or sell&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66056,66047],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283928"}],"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=283928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}