Centre for children hit by autism to be set up in Moldova's capital

14:21 | 08.04.2019 Category: Social

Chisinau, 8 April /MOLDPRES/ - A centre meant for children hit by autism will be set up in Chisinau. The general acting mayor of Chisinau, Ruslan Codreanu, made statements to this effect today.

According to Codreanu, the space for the future centre has been already identified. It is in the Rascani district of Chisinau and has 20 square metres. The mayor did not specify how much money was needed for opening the centre.

At the new centre, children will benefit including from services of psycho-pedagogy and parents will be able to leave children to be cared by employees for just several hours.

„I do not want us to have discrimination in the Chisinau city. We, as local public authority, must make sure that we provide every comfort and services at the highest level to all residents: children, young people, teenagers, employees, unemployed people, elderly persons. As municipality, we do not have a centre through which we are to provide services to these wonderful children,” Ruslan Codreanu said.

Statistics data shows that about 346 children with autism were officially recorded in Moldova in 2017.

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