Naira Babayan, who heads the press service of the Penitentiary Medical Center attached to the Armenian Ministry of Justice, refuted press allegations that those held in Armenian prisons have been given expired medications.

Babayan, during a discussion on the medical services offered in Armenia’s prisons, said such a thing “is impossible to imagine.”

She said there are 2,300 people now held in Armenia’s penal institutions and that 676 suffer from chronic diseases.

442 various medications/drugs are currently used to treat these people.

Babayan flatly ruled out the possibility that many of them became sick after incarceration, claiming that many had serious health issues before being jailed.