Reporting Cases of Domestic Violence Doctors play an important role in preventing and responding to domestic violence. Yet, even though doctors are informed about their obligation to report cases of domestic violence to law enforcement bodies,33 women’s rights organizations attest to the opposite. The Ministry of Health’s order is not uniformly implemented and there are many violations of it. Upon conducting training in Ijevan doctors were of the same opinion, but one of them said: “It’s obvious, for example, if the leg would be broken, regardless of the case, we should report to the Police. But there were cases when the husband
33 See Order N 44-N of the RA Minister of Health as of 18.10.2019 On Approval of Procedure of Case Management of the Patients at the Reception of the Medical Organization Providing Hospital Medical Care and Services” https://www.arlis.am/DocumentView. aspx?docID=135660.
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