On June 28, ARM Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and the Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan took part in granting the rank of "Lieutenant" to the graduates of the Military Medical Department of Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heraci. Congratulating the graduates on becoming officers, the minister particularly said, "looking at you we can surely say that the young being enlisted to carry out their military service will realize their duties confidently towards their motherland as their health is to be taken care of competent doctors like you". In his speech the Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan stated that the life and the health of the Armenian soldiers are in the reliable hands due to the graduates of this department.