Haik Avetisyan, who is a registered patient in the Abovyan city tuberculosis dispensary of the RA Ministry of Healthcare asked us to examine the results of an experiment done in 2005, which in fact had to be done by totally different institutions. According to him, after testing the Armenicum medicine 29 people with tuberculosis sickness have died. “In 2005, when the Armenicum had been just discovered, they had to do some experiments. At that time I was getting treatment at the tuberculosis dispensary. They tested the Armenicum on 30 people, 29 out of which died, and one of them stayed alive because managed to escape,” assures V.Avetisyan and adds that it was done by taking signatures from the patients. He says doctors have suggested him too but he refused. “I was there at that time. The patients subject to the experiment were guarded by people with guns and one could not see what was happening inside. It was not injection, it was a long procedure. Those 29 guys died,” he said. We called the deputy minister of healthcare Hayk Darbinyan and asked why the medicine invented against AIDS was used on patients with tuberculosis and why 29 patients had died because of the experiments. H. Darbinyan approved the information that the Armenicum had been tested on patients with tuberculosis. He also said that the experiments were done not in 2005 but in 2004. “There are reports and protocols. It was tested on 13 patients and none of them has died. As the tuberculosis is a sickness that grows with stabile steps, and the Armenicum is a medicine that stimulates the immune system, thus the scientists and doctors decided to test the medicine on those patients as well,” said the deputy minister and added that as the medicine stimulates the immune system, and the patients with tuberculosis have weak immune system, this medicine could use on them without any problem. However he said that these experiments did not show any positive change in the patients. H. Darbinyan says that the rumors about 29 dead people are not true because the medicine was tested on 13 patients and they are still alive. Concerning the signatures the deputy minister said that it was not true because usually doctors take signatures from patients only in case when these experiments are dangerous for their lives. However the patient that gave us this information promises to give us facts and proofs. We told Mr. Darbinyan that we have been told about this by a patient that used to get treatment at the tuberculosis dispensary, who was at the hospital during the experiments and assures that the patients died after the experiments. Even more, that guy says he was suggested to use the Armenicum for experiment purposes but he refused. H. Darbinyan recommended us to gather the information concerning those patients and send to him for the purpose of getting acquainted with the medical histories of those patients.
