The Public Defender has addressed the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons with a recommendation
The Public Defender has addressed
the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories,
Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia with a recommendation to study the
condition of Irakli Gadelia and take the necessary measures to create adequate
living conditions for Irakli Gadelia’s family.
The
Public Defender of Georgia received an application of Irakli Gadelia who is an
IDP from Abkhazia. He, together with his family, is registered as required by
law and lives in the building of the Republican Hospital in Zugdidi.
According
to the applicant, his living conditions are extremely hard. The roof and walls
of the building are damaged, which poses a threat to the life and health of the
members of I. Gadelia’s family. In addition, in accordance with the submitted
documents, Irakli Gadelia’s son, Mikheil Gadelia, has health-related problems.
Specifically, the medical certificate confirms that Mikheil Gadelia is ill with
acute lymphoid leukemia.
On
March 1 and 29, 2012, the Office of the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia
addressed the Ministry and, in accordance with Paragraph C of Article 18 of the
Organic Law of Georgia on the Public Defender of Georgia, requested detailed
information about providing Irakli Gadelia with alternative accommodation or
rehabilitating his accommodation.
“According
to the information provided by the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons
from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia, the
Ministry possesses information about the emergency condition of the building of
the Republican Hospital in Zugdidi, due to which the issue of the IDPs living
in the aforementioned building is paid particular attention and procedural
monitoring on their long-term accommodation is under way.
In
spite of this, the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied
Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia has not provided the Public
Defender’s Office with concrete information about the terms within which Irakli
Gadelia’s family will be provided with long-term accommodation”, - is said in
the statement of the Public defender.
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