Who to trust – Medical System or …? My brother’s story
October 26, 2006This is it. I’ve been so long waiting for this hour! After reading Arsineh’s post on Health Care in Armenia, and then before reading up Onnik’s reference to it, the first thing which occurred to me was that this is the high time to talk on my own experience in that field which has been lasting for about 5 years. I would always delay with writing on it being a bit superstitious, but now when the subject is already boiling on two blogs I can’t keep myself anymore from talking on that, especially after reading some of the comments. Now I think who to start with? My brother or me? Or both together. My endeavor now will be to speak briefly on my brother’s illness and what my family experienced during these long 5 years. Hoping not to scatter words around and not to bore you I hold back some details and give the succession of the events, and also avoiding to use medical terminology.
Five years ago my brother’s temperature lasted more than would that of a person who has caught a cold. Then very unexpectedly he felt pain in his legs and in his all body. And his temperature wouldn’t decrease. So we took him to Isolation Hospital at Norq where it took them about a month before they eventually diagnosed that he was infected by brucellosis. As you know it is an animal disease and the virus of brucella can be transmitted to people via animal products like meat, milk, cheese. These comes to state another problem: before appearing on market counters the product does not pass all the required examinations and tests. And who cares? Only that they get money, doesn’t matter that the diseased animal may cause chronic illness to thousands of people.
