YEREVAN. – During today's Cabinet session of the government of Armenia, Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan and some other participants spoke about the forced treatment of people and other issues in the psychiatric institutions of the country. But this did not please Arsen Torosyan, the Minister of Health, and he began to defend the doctors.

Torosyan said that such observations may give the impression that the psychiatric institutions in Armenia are operating systemically wrong, adding that there have always been changes in this field and that the problems are individual.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan responded to this. "I haven’t understood that culture of departmental solidarity too well," he said. "But we all know that those incidents have happened."

Arsen Torosyan responded that the situation is improving and he does not want to give the impression that the people in Armenia’s psychiatric institutions are being treated against their will.