Blood Center Employee Dismissed Following Facebook Posts

The Hematology Center named after Professor Yolyan of the Ministry of Health has announced on its Facebook page: “Yesterday, unacceptable posts from one of our employees were posted online. We want to inform that the Hematology Center considers such behavior from an employee unacceptable, and their expressed thoughts or actions have no relation to the Center or its staff, and the employee has been dismissed today.” This is reported by Aravot.am.

It is noteworthy that earlier, the president of the Civil Forum NGO, Marine Manucharyan, informed on her Facebook page: “I have long wanted to address those who provide assistance to the people of Artsakh. Among them are many silent workers, reaching volunteers, benefactors, simply good people. May God protect everyone. Usually, those who provide real assistance are not known to the public and social networks, but we immediately notice those who create a loud uproar. I wouldn’t have commented on this specific example if this ‘provider of assistance’ had not wrapped her charity in cheap publicity, personal information sharing, and hate speech.”

“So, someone Ani Karapetyan, who works as a secretary or assistant at the Hematology Center named after Professor Yolyan, provided some clothes and diapers to the mother of a small child, Saten Jalalyan, and then, as you can see from the screenshot, quite awkwardly demanded that Saten take pictures of her children next to those gifts and send them to her. When Saten became curious as to why, Ani began to insult her and called Saten a Turk, and the rest of the dialogue is visible in the screenshots.”

This incident might have remained between the two if Ani hadn’t made another sobbing post in the Unified Support Information Channel group, discrediting Saten, saying “I can’t help anymore,” and when myself and others asked what right she had to publish Saten’s photos, she blocked me and I don’t know if she deleted the post or is still poisoning.”

I hope that if the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia is aware that an employee of its healthcare center independently spreads such hatred, whether this is her personal initiative, they should better call such employees to vigilance. As I have mentioned many times, if you are not mentally ready to help, then do not help.”

P.S. I publish the personal correspondence with Saten’s permission.