Veterans threaten to sue Chisinau authorities unless they allocate €40,000 for prostheses

Nistru war veterans threaten to sue the Chisinau authorities unless they allocate €40,000 to buy prostheses for two disabled veterans, Info-Prim Neo reports. Valeriu Ciobanu, the secretary of the 1992 war veterans association, has told a news conference on Monday that although general mayor Dorin Chirtoaca inked an ordinance to grant the money, the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) chairman, Eduard Musuc, refuses to put the issue on the CMC's agenda. According to the signed ordinance, Dorin Chirtoaca recommends the CMC to allocate €40,000 to buy prostheses for two war veterans: Grigore Barcaru and Pavel Berzan. “Whenever we tried to speak with Eduard Musuc about the possibility to allocate this money, the CMC chairman was reacting nervously and called for the police. However, Musuc let himself convinced to put the issue fore the next sitting of the CMC,” Valeriu Ciobanu says. According to him, Eduard Musuc allegedly tried to manipulate with that money, trying to allocate it to the relevant center from Chisinau, and not to the prostheses-dealing company from Romania. The disabled insist to be installed the prostheses in Romania, though the Government and the CMC recommend them to go to the Chisinau Prostheses Center. Pavel Berzan, one of the disabled, says the prostheses from Romania, costing 10,000 euros each, are easy and performing, while the ones made in Moldova make wounds when walking. Unless the authorities grant the assistance, the veterans promise to picket the officials' houses, asking to raise their pensions, to grant them dwelling space and to give prostheses to the disabled veterans. The veterans say they'll sue the Central authorities, too, “for morally damaging the veterans by not allocating money for prostheses.” There are 269 disabled veterans of the Afghanistan was and 243 – of the 1992 military conflict in Moldova now.