Conflict in Stauceni healthcare center is about decentralizing administration's activity: Dorin Chirtoaca

The conflict in the healthcare center from Stauceni village of the Chisinau municipality is about a larger problem – the decentralization of the administration's activity, said Chisinau mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, Info-Prim Neo reports. Later last week, the head of the Stauceni healthcare center, Tatiana Branza, accused the mayor of the village of willing to dismiss her and appoint someone else. “It's not good when situation of power duality appear,” said Dorin Chirtoaca at the city hall's staff meeting Monday. According to him, the law provides that schoolmasters or chiefs of healthcare centers are appointed by the heads of the municipal administration. “As we have problems with the municipal police, because it is not decentralized and is subordinated to the Ministry of Interior, the same happens to other institutions. As the Chisinau city hall cannot change the police commissar for disobedience, though naturally we should be able to do so, so the local council of Stauceni cannot change the head of the healthcare center,” Dorin Chirtoaca said. Mihai Moldovanu, the head of the healthcare direction of Chisinau, said in Tatiana Branza's defense that the Stauceni mayor “promotes people loyal to the present government,” by appointing another person to manage the healthcare center. “This is the policy of Savin (Victor Savin, a councilor from Moldova Noastra Alliance, e.n.), of Lupulciuc, whose powers were withdrawn (Igor Lupulciuc, deputy mayor of Chisinau, e.n.), and of the Health Ministry,” said Moldovanu, mentioning that “Branza is a good professional and the local council may not appoint somebody else.” In response, the mayor of Stauceni, Valentin Satnic, attending the sitting said that “Tatiana Branza was suspended from her job, but was suggested to deal only with treatment.”