Moldovan cabinet approves special social package for Stalin deportations' victims

18:11 | 04.07.2018 Category: Official

Chisinau, 04 July /MOLDPRES/ – The victims of Stalinist deportations will benefit of monthly allowances up to MDL 500 and a host of additional facilities starting with 01 September 2018. The government has today approved a special social package for persons which suffered from political repression in order to increase their level of social protection, including through provision of medical treatment and recovery services.

According to the government’s communication and protocol department, Prime Minister Pavel Filip has said that it happens on eve of 06 July, when there will be commemorated the victims of Stalinist deportations. "I thank all those which have worked on these projects. It is important for these persons that lived at a time when life was too tough with them," said Pavel Filip.

The monthly allowances to rehabilitated victims of political repression will increase from MDL 100 to MDL 500. For it, there will be allocated MDL 13 million from state budget in 2018.

The social package also includes additional medical services provided under compulsory healthcare insurance, which will allow dynamic monitoring of health status of victims of political repression and early detection of illnesses conditioned by risk factors under which they had been placed. Thus, victims of deportations will be able to benefit annually from a prophylactic medical examination free of charge, including lab investigations, as well as rehabilitation treatment at the Government hospital.

Also, these people will be able to obtain treatment tickets at sanatorium annually with a reduction of MDL 3,250, which is 50 per cent of ticket cost. Currently, the state pays 30 per cent of the price of treatment sheets at sanatorium. The cost of implementing these measures is estimated at about MDL 430 thousand. Similarly, victims of deportations will receive new ID cards.

Almost 8,000 deportees live in Moldova, receiving material aid amounting to MDL 1,000 in 2018, by MDL 300 more than in 2017.

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