Twenty Moldovans with locomotor disabilities benefit from devices for moving

Chisinau, 21 June /MOLDPRES/ - Twenty wheelchairs today were distributed to persons with locomotor disabilities. The devices were adjusted to each beneficiary individually.   

The wheelchairs represent part of a donation within a project implemented by the public association, Invalids Society of Moldova, and the charity organization LDS Charities.Inc from the USA, with the support of the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry.  

„We have made sure each time that the partnership between the state and non-governmental organizations is efficient and the cooperation within this project is a good example in this respect. Only by involvement and cooperation, we will be able to provide well-being and social integration of persons with disabilities. We are set to provide all people with locomotor disabilities means helping for movement,” the state secretary at the aforementioned ministry, Viorica Dumbraveanu, has said.  

For his part, a representative of the donors, Vogelsberg Clif, said that he was grateful for the good cooperation with Moldova’s authorities, which had lasted 14 years. “Beginning with this year, wheelchairs are of three types: for people with serious diseases, for those having an active lifestyle and for persons from rural regions. Thus, people will enjoy the proper device, depending on the place of residence and lifestyle,” Vogelsberg Clif noted.     

At the same time, on 19-22 June, 22 technicians and therapists from municipal and district Social Assistance Departments, along with heads of territorial associations for disabled people were trained by four physicians from the USA and Germany in the process of evaluation, assembling and adjusting wheelchairs for each applicant individually and received international certificates allowing them to assess and distribute the wheelchairs.   

Since early 2018, about 100 wheelchairs have been distributed to persons with disabilities and another 615 people will benefit from wheelchairs till the end of this year.   

Data by the Republican Prosthetics, Orthopedy and Rehabilitation Centre shows that about 1,200 persons with disabilities of the locomotor apparatus are recorded to be supplied with wheelchairs.    

(Reporter A. Ciobanu, editor M. Jantovan)