Moldovan authorities ask World Health Organization to pay technical visit to Transnistrian region

Chisinau, 28 April /MOLDPRES/ - Chisinau had asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to send a strictly technical mission to the Transnistrian region, a component part of Moldova, where yet the constitutional authorities cannot guarantee the observance of the human rights, including residents’ access to medical services, the Reintegration Policies Bureau has reported.    

The request comes after OSCE informed about the lack of plans on the summoning of a meeting in 5+2 format for the Transnistrian conflict settlement, demanded by Chisinau, during which the COVID-19 situation and health aspects in the region were to be considered. Thus, the Reintegration Policies Bureau makes use of alternative instruments to historically recognized ones, in order to take knowledge of the realities of the pandemic crisis and observance of human rights in terms of health in the Transnistrian region.

Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Cristina Lesnic stressed that the priority agenda, on the emergency situation period, provided for identifying a balance of health and observance of human rights in Moldova, which includes the health condition of the residents from the Transnistrian region, where about 320,000 Moldovan citizens live.

„We find out with concern that the self-isolation of the Transnistrian region and the hindrance of the free movement, in correlation with the access to medical assistance of the Moldovan citizens with health insurances of Moldova, as well as the correctness of the data and information in the territory seriously hit the human rights, as well as the risks’ management in the conditions of the pandemic,’’ Cristina Lesnic said.