Moldovan Democratic Party asks law-enforcement institutions to consider situation in charity sector

Chisinau, 20 February /MOLDPRES/ - The Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) has demanded that the law-enforcement bodies take note in case of the website www.caritate.md and come up with an analysis of the situation in this sector. The spokesman for PDM, Vitalie Gamurari, today made statements to this effect in the end of the Democrats’ weekly meeting.  

According to the PDM representative, the state’s institutions should identify whether there are really irregularities in this field, in the wake of which patients are hit or if somebody was behind this situation.

“For us, the subject is sensitive; we want specialists, state institutions to give their opinions. The investigation bodies must consider the case caritate.md and find out why such an investigation has appeared or whether this is a material by order. We know that there is so-called medical tourism in Moldova and if it exists, it should be in the favour of patients. We must demand a reaction also on behalf of the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry,” Gamurari noted.

On 19 February, an investigation appeared in international media, in which journalists denounce possible swindles, in which a Chisinau-based charity foundation would have been involved, which collected money for sick children. Several parents told journalists that the interventions proposed at a clinic from Turkey, for which money was raised by this foundation, were in fact simulated. The charity foundation, as well as the website concerned in the investigation turned down the charges, noting that “this is a put-up affair.”    

(Reporter A. Zara, editor A. Raileanu)