Russian-language content, photos and text about prostatitis, and an offer to buy a drug called Uretramol at 50% off. Added to this, the Republic of Armenia coat of arms and \u201cMinistry of Healthcare of the Republic of Armenia\u201d written in Russian. This is the appearance of websites that try to sell drugs to overcome prostatitis in Armenian circles on social media.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Healthcare informed Media.am that it has nothing to do with these sites or the drugs. Those advertising the drugs simply use the ministry\u2019s name, to appear credible before site visitors.<\/p>\n
For example, an article from news-4fream.ru<\/a> presents information about prostatitis as supposed statistical data \u2014 based on non-existent analysis of the non-existent \u201cCentral Scientific Research Institute of the Informatization and Organization of Healthcare of the Republic of Armenia.\u201d The healthcare ministry\u2019s name and logo appear in the website\u2019s header. <\/p>\n The article supposedly cites responses by RA Ministry of Healthcare chief urologist Ruben Melkumyan (a made-up first and last name) about prostatitis. The picture in the photo is not Ruben Melkumyan. Through a Google Image search, we discover that the person in the photo is urologist Dr. Ashok Mehta<\/a>, from India.<\/p>\n The article is structured such as to show that it supposedly has numerous positive comments. In reality, the comments advertising Uretramol and touting its effectiveness against prostatitis are published as photos and are likewise fake.<\/p>\n When you click on any section on news-4dream.ru, it goes to news-top-rated.com. At the same time, an article from sale-health-official.ru<\/a> opens up in a new pop-up window, which is likewise advertising and again offers visitors to order and buy the corresponding drug. Here, supposedly expert opinions are expressed by experienced doctors. A photo supposedly of Garik Manukyan is actually of surgeon Taron Taronyan, and the photo is lifted from armeniasputnik.am<\/a>.<\/p>\n Searching in a database of domain news, who.is, we learn that information about the domains news-4dream.ru<\/a> and sale-health-official.ru<\/a> is unavailable. <\/p>\n Not only the fake site method is used for advertising \u2014 there is similar content on Facebook. For example, one of the fake Facebook pages, \u201c1 way for joints and back pain<\/a>,\u201d uses the photo of anesthesiologist Samvel Kochinyan. In conversation with Media.am, Kochinyan said he\u2019s not on Facebook and has nothing to do with the page in question.<\/p>\n These at first sight seemingly small manipulations and fraud perhaps wouldn\u2019t be noticed if there was no mass interest in them. Not everyone can verify information from websites and social media, and many may be deceived by such confusing advertising.<\/p>\n Gagik Aghbalyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian-language content, photos and text about prostatitis, and an offer to buy a drug called Uretramol at 50% off. Added to this, the Republic of Armenia coat of arms and \u201cMinistry of Healthcare of the Republic of Armenia\u201d written in Russian. This is the appearance of websites that try to sell drugs to overcome prostatitis Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","category-verified","author_posts-gagik-aghbalyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}