Lifesaving drugs distributed in the villages on ABL

Lado Bitchashvili, Shida Kartli

The members of the working group of the Coalition for Rebuilding Trust, within the humanitarian action, distributed the medicines in the villages on ABL for free. The members of the working group have delivered the lifesaving drugs to 150 people in 3 villages. 

Within the project, the members of working group of the Coalition for Rebuilding Trust visited three villages in Shida Kartli region.

  

As local resident Sokrate Kokishvili says, the population has never received this kind of help before. 

“It is the first time we receive aid. We are grateful to the non-governmental organization that has brought free medicines for us and studied the needs of our village,”- said Sokrate Kokishvili.

According to locals , despite strategic location of the villages, the government has forgotten about the villages on the border line. 

“The government must help us. We have problems; we can’t buy medicines. We can’t even buy such simple drugs as Analgin,”_ said Mzia Gvimradze, resident of Arbo village.

 

According to the statement of the deputy executive director of Human Rights Center Nino Tlashadze, a part of medicines was purchased within the project budget; another part, upon request, was provided to the members of the working group by one of the pharmaceutical companies AVERSI. 

„The locals are dissatisfied, because representatives neither of local government, nor from central authority have ever visited them. There is a huge list of problems in all three villages, which is the government’s responsibility to take care of. First of all they should start building outpatients,” – said Nino Tlashadze. 

Representatives of the organization gave first-aid medicines to the ethnic Ossetian woman residing in the so called Neutral Territory in Zaardiantkari village. 

The project “Rebuilding of Trust is implemented by Norwegian Helsinki Committee with financial support of EU and the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Norway in South Caucasus. The project is operated by the Human Rights Center with the partner organizations PMMG in Georgia.