Moldovan PM asks to hold accountable persons which offered unjustified degrees of disability

Chisinau, 22 August /MOLDPRES/ – Prime Minister Pavel Filip asks that those persons which committed violations and offered unjustified degrees of disability to be held accountable according to law. "This reform means not just reforming the system and the people go. The ones which have been corrupted, committed violations, must respond for their actions," emphasised Pavel Filip, the government's communication and protocol department has reported.

The implementation of reform of disability determination system has been examined today in a working meeting at Government, with several constraints and barriers in its realisation, including resistance within the system.

"We have to build an upright and functional system for determining disability. It has to come in comfort of the citizen, who indeed falls within the criteria for granting the degree of disability, and not those ones which use the system to get money," said Pavel Filip.

At present, the degree of disability is set by 15 expert teams, activity of which is verified by 3 control committees. According to presented info, some teams are examining and preparing about 700 files per month, while others – only 100. The Premier said that this raises many questions and asked that the work of expert teams to be evaluated correctly and objectively. So that those who work effectively are encouraged, and those who delay the work process create impediments to citizens, to be dissolved by order of the Ministry of Healthcare, Labour and Social Protection (MSMPS), and others are created instead. "We need the right people and professionals in this system," specified Pavel Filip.

The PM called for the reform of disability determination system to be completed and constraints that still exist to be removed. Thus, it was decided that as of 03 September 2018, it to be forbidden to complete manually the files on determination of disability, the data of persons being introduced into the automated information system. The criteria for determining disability will also be revised to exclude any margin of error and the Commissions of control (CC) will be subordinated directly to MSMPS.

The reform of the system for diagnosing disability began in April 2018, at initiative of PM Pavel Filip.