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Persons with visual impairments will get free vision correcting devices


https://www.ipn.md/en/persons-with-visual-impairments-will-get-free-vision-correcting-devices-7967_1088232.html

The persons with severe, profound and moderate visual impairments will receive visual correcting devices and visual aids free of charge, as the Cabinet decided on March 2, IPN reports.

Based on the prescription of the ophthalmologist, the National Experimental Prosthetics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Center will provide magnifying glasses, Braille writing equipment, eyeglasses, white canes and other devices.

The decision will be implemented at a cost of about 2 million lei a year. The sums will be added when the 2022 state budget law will be amended.