Anik Hovakimian lost her left leg at the age of two. She is not only a disabled, she also has other health related problems. “I have just come from RA National Center for Cancer Treatment. They don’t want to deal with me. They say I need to pay for my treatment. I wish I had money to pay them for proper treatment. I have to amputate my genital organs. I have no money to pay for the operation,” A. Hovakimian told Hetq. Hetq turned to RA National Center for Cancer Treatment for explanations. According to Sousanna Gyurjinyan, a representative of the Center’s registration department, the treatment at their center is free. “Especially if the woman you mentioned is a disabled, she shouldn’t have had any problems at our center. Tell Mrs. Anik to come to me, I’ll settle her issues. I’ll see what she complains about,” S. Gyurjinian added. It’s worth mentioning that Mrs. Anik lives with her daughter and her one year old grandson Norik. She is a single parent, while her daughter divorced quite recently. Anik receives 20 thousand drams of disability pension. Her little grandson gets 13 thousand drams of benefit. “I don’t know what to pay for. I have either pay for electricity, water or spend the money on our food. I owe 50 thousand drams to the stores. I turned for help to the state officials, but nobody assisted me. We are not provided with gas, so the whole winter we had to boil water and fill the bottles with it to be able to get some warmth from the bottles we were holding. I have gone to the Armavir’s Administration Office for many times. I even asked for money to buy bread. The officials were rude to me, showed me off the building, saying that they don’t print money for me.  Right now we don’t have anything to eat. The stores do not want to sell us food. They know we can’t pay back. They know there is not a man living in our family to work and earn money. We are facing great difficulties now. I am disabled. We have nobody to help us.  Moreover, we have to raise this baby. I am sick and tired of my living. I don’t know what to do. I suffer and cry every day. I don’t know how to survive. Today, my grandchild is crying and I have nothing to feed him. How can I live in such conditions? I haven’t purchased a single new cloth for me for already several years. I have to wear second hand clothes donated form other people. I am disabled from early childhood. I have to use crutches all the time and my hands ache. I can’t bear this life any longer,” Mrs. Anik complained. One of the neighbours brought a plate of hot soup to feed the baby, when our correspondent was at Mrs. Anik’s place. The neightbour also said that the state officials do not support Anik’s family. Only Armavir’s Mayor’s Office sometimes helps them out with some money. We tried to speak to Mrs. Anik’s daughter, but she was too ashamed. She kept staying in the corridor and asked only to help them get gas for heating the apartment. Translated by Anoush Mkrtchyan