TIKA renewed the rehabilitation department operating in Moldova.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has renovated the rehabilitation unit No. 1 within the Experimental Prosthetics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Center (CREPOR) in Moldova.

As part of the project carried out in cooperation with TIKA and CREPOR, a comprehensive renovation of the rehabilitation unit No. 1 was first conducted. In the second phase of the project, furniture and medical equipment were supplied. The opening program was attended by Turkey’s Ambassador to Chișinău Uygar Mustafa Sertel, TIKA’s Balkan and Eastern Europe Department Head Muhammed Ünal, Chairman of the Health and Social Security Committee of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Adrian Belıi, Member of Parliament Boris Marcoci, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Moldova responsible for Veterans Constantin Covrig, and CREPOR Center Director Veronica Lebedinski.

Ambassador Sertel, speaking at the ceremony, noted that he had visited CREPOR a year ago and expressed his great happiness in seeing the current state of the center. He mentioned that Turkey is carrying out works to support the Republic of Moldova in many areas, stating that tangible results have been achieved through the projects implemented by TIKA.

Muhammed Ünal, TIKA’s Balkan and Eastern Europe Department Head, expressed that since the opening of the TIKA Chișinău Program Coordination Office in 1994, nearly 500 projects and activities have been implemented, of which 50 are in the health sector. He expressed satisfaction that the rehabilitation center No. 1, with a capacity of 40 beds renovated and equipped by TIKA, enables patients receiving treatment to quickly return to their daily lives and continue from where they left off.

CREPOR Director Lebedinski expressed her gratitude to the Republic of Turkey, particularly TIKA, for realizing such an important project and shared her satisfaction with the work done in a department that had not been renovated for 22 years. She stated that the project will benefit especially those injured in the war and expressed her excitement at being able to provide them with better facilities.

The center, which also houses a prosthetics factory established to meet the prosthetic needs of World War II victims, serves more than 55 thousand war veterans, including 11,800 soldiers injured in Afghanistan and Transnistria. In addition to war veterans, individuals with disabilities and musculoskeletal disorders also receive treatment and rehabilitation at the center, which offers physiotherapy, kinesitherapy, balneotherapy, thermotherapy, ionotherapy, bath therapy, and other medical services.