A group of war veterans informed about irregularities at the Republican Experimental Center for Prosthetics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation (CREPOR). The participants in a news conference hosted by IPN said that war veterans who received treatment at the Center had to pay charges for procedures, despite the fact that they are medically insured by the state, for the reason that the financing for the institution is allocated with delay.
The chairman of the Transnistrian Refugees’ Movement Anatolie Bîzgu said that the previous years they made approaches to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova to have financial resources allocated for the maintenance of the 2nd and 3rd floors of M block at CREPOR when amending the state budget. Although it was promised that funds will be identified to ensure the proper functioning of these sections, the necessary money has not been allotted to solve the problem.
Anatolie Bîzgu read a statement whereby they asked the state budget for 2024 to be amended to provide financial sources necessary for the maintenance of the 2nd and 3rd floors of block M of the Republican Experimental Center for Prosthetics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation. “We request to constitute a commission to check how the CREPOR hospital acts with regard to war veterans,” the statement runs.
War veteran Valeriu Chicu noted that the procedures at CREPOR are carried out for money, while the food offered there is of a low quality. He called on the authorities to intervene.
The war veterans also requested the authorities and state institutions responsible for war veterans’ issues to include in the draft law on veterans, which was given a first reading by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, the requested benefits, such as the right to free travel by all means of urban passenger transport and rail transport, free sanatorium treatment tickets for war veterans in rehabilitation centers of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and other state institutions of this type. Among the requests are also to work out and approve the action plan “Memory. Honor. Respect” and to also adopt the draft law on the recalculation of pensions of employees of internal affairs bodies, to create a governmental body, the Office for Veterans’ Relations, and to introduce allowances for war widows and/or their family members in the amount of 50% of the national minimum salary.
The organizers of the conference announced that they will stage a protest in support of war veterans in front of the Government Building in central Chisinau on September 11, at 10:00 a.m.
Note: IPN Agency offers the right of reply to persons who consider that they were targeted in the articles produced based on the statements of the organizers of this press conference, including by facilitating the organization of another press conference under similar conditions.
