Health Ministry responds to death of IDP in Kartli sanatorium
Responding to the incident, minister Zurab Azarashvili said the ministry had "specific vision" for providing families in the dilapidated sanatorium with new housing.
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Minister of Health Zurab Azarashvili has expressed his condolences following yesterday’s incident at the former Kartli sanatorium when IDP Zurab Chichoshvili jumped out of his apartment in the building and died yesterday.
“I express condolences to the family of the deceased, this is a terrible incident. From the first day of my appointment, consultations have been ongoing. We have a specific vision and plan on how to provide 13,000 families with housing. Periodically, the IDPs are notified about the status of the process,” said Minister Azarashvili.
Due to the difficult living conditions in the sanatorium, the IDPs residing there have demanded they be given new housing.
Azarashvili says Deputy Health Minister Ilia Gudushauri is working to address the issues faced by residents of the Kartli sanatorium. He is familiar with the situation and has met with IDPs and introduced IDPs residing in the building to the ministry’s action plan.
“One of the priorities of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia is to take care of IDPs and improve their social conditions.
According to the decision of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, “the IDPs living in the former sanatorium Kartli will receive new housing unconditionally in 2022”, reads the statement.
An investigation has been launched into the incident and the cause of Zurab Chichoshvili's death.
From 2004 to 2012, more than 18,000 IDP families were provided with new housing, while from 2012 until today more than 27,000 IDP families.
According to the ministry, the goal for the next three years is to provide at least 13,000 families with apartments.
Georgian government plans to provide 13,000 internally displaced families with new homes across the country within the next four years, Director of the IDP Agency Besarion Simonishvili announced earlier today at the health ministry’s presentation of the 4-year strategic plan for the resettlement of IDPs. A total of 8,000 apartments will be built in various Georgian cities such as Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Kutaisi and Rustavi and 709,800,000 GEL (about $229,508,196/€193,807,339) will be allocated from the state budget for the IDP settlement project in 2021-2024.
The Georgian government has given property deeds to 122 internally displaced families (321 persons) for the symbolic price of one lari in the western Kobuleti municipality and the capital of Tbilisi, Georgian Economy Minister Natia Turnava announced earlier today.
About 300 internally displaced (IDP) families living in state-owned buildings will register the apartments they inhabit at a symbolic price, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced today.
The Georgian Government has gifted new homes to 60 Internally Displaced veterans and their families in Georgia’s western cities of Zugdidi and Kutaisi.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has criticised health minister Zurab Azarashvili’s comments on the case of the death of Zurab Chichoshvili, an internally displaced person who jumped out of his apartment in the former Kartli sanatorium building and died on January 15, saying it was "wrong to declare a qualification during the investigation."
Families of internally displaced persons who have been residing in the dilapidated Kartli sanatorium building will "unconditionally" recessive new housing by the end of 2022 to solve the long-running issue, prime minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.
A total of 40 families of internally displaced persons who lived in the dilapidated building of the former Kartli sanatorium in Tbilisi have received flats in a newly built apartment block in the capital, the Ministry of IDPs said on Thursday.