Unique hospital proposed for patients in wheelchairs

Persons using wheelchairs could be hospitalized in a single medical institution, where all necessary conditions would be provided, Info-Prim Neo reports. Deputy Prime Minister Mihai Moldovanu put forward this proposal during the meeting of the governmental Council on problems of people with special needs, after NGO representatives complained about the difficulties faced by such patients’ in healthcare institutions. Serghei Afanasenco, head of the Disabled Youth Association of Moldova, listed some examples of such cases. One of them was that of the GP Center No.1 on 31 August Street, where patients in wheelchairs need another person’s help to enter because of the steep ramp. Igor Meriacre, executive director of Motivatie Association, spoke about the lack of WCs for disabled people in hospitals. He added that, often, patients had to bring their own mobile WC. The Deputy Prime Minister proposed that all wheelchair ridden patients were hospitalized in a single institution, which would be properly equipped with ramps, railings, special WCs and would provide all the necessary conditions for its patients. There are about 170,000 disabled people in Moldova, 15,000 of them being children. Statistics show that their number is growing.