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Part of IDPs Refuse to Lodge In Former Medical Center

September 2, 2010
Shorena Latatia

About 60 IDP families from Abkhazia have been living in the national center of ophthalmology and neurology in Tbilisi for many years already. In 2007 the company New Hospital within PSP Group purchased the building and started construction of a new medical clinic in it. Consequently, the 39 IDP families are supposed to be evicted from the one part of the building.

The Human Rights Center found out that most people living in the national center of ophthalmology and neurology are internally displaced people; but there are people who are not internally displaced at all.

Matsi Beraia, IDP from Abkhazia: “A year ago, we learned from the workers working on the construction here that alternative accommodation for us would be offered in the medical center for burn diseases. One part of IDPs protested the fact immediately. We think the building does not comply with the standard. The director of the center Besik Iashvili stated in his interview that IDPs cannot be lodged into the building because of sanitary-epidemic norms in it. (see the corresponding article on www.ambebi.ge/meditsina/3973-strategiuli-mnishvnelobis-saavadmkopos-dakhurva-emuqreba-ra-eshveleba-damtsvar-khalkhs.html).

Deputy director of the New Hospital, Ltd Tengiz Jamelashvili stated in his interview with the Human Rights Center that the center for burn diseases consist of two separate buildings. The walls were completely scraped off before the construction started; so epidemic and infection threats are completely safe for IDPs.

Matsi Beraia said that the head of the administrative department of the Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees Valeri Kopaleishvili stated in his interview woth Real.tv that spaces in the buildings which are in medical centers cannot be registered on IDPs. (www.rtv.ge/video.php?video_id=746&width=500&height=350).

In the contrary, Tengiz Jamelashvili clarified that the ministry decided to lodge the IDPs into the former center of burn diseases and it was done in accordance to the law.

“The space offered by the New Hospital Ltd is not less than their previous ones in the national center for ophthalmology and neurology; in many cases the space is even larger. Besides that, the flats are more renovated and soon they will be registered on IDPs,” said Jamelashvili.

The Human Rights Center clarified that the IDPs living in the national center of ophthalmology and neurology have different opinion about the problem. Part of them has already agreed to accept the alternative accommodation and another part received the compensation of 10 000 USD; the third part categorically refuses to move to the center for burn diseases and requests 30 000 USD as compensation.

“In accordance to the law on IDPs we have full right to refuse to live in collective centers and request compensation from the investor. Unfortunately, we cannot purchase a flat for 10 000 USD even in the suburb of Tbilisi. So, we requested different alternative accommodation or adequate amount of compensation from them,” said Matsi Beraia.

At the moment, the New Hospital Ltd excludes the possibility to increase the compensation sum. “10 000 USD is the maximum price we can offer to them,” Jamelashvili.

It is still unclear what measures will be taken by the New Hospital Ltd if the part of IDPs continues to refuse to leave the building or decline the offered compensation.

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