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Roman Andres, acting director of the department of social protection of the population of Lviv OVA, told about this during a briefing at the “Ukraine” media center.<\/p>\n
He noted that according to the data of the Unified State Register of Internally Displaced Persons, more than 250,000 IDPs were recorded in Lviv Oblast. Among them, 160,000 are women, 90,000 are men. More than 75 thousand are children. More than 32,000 pensioners and about 9,000 people with disabilities.<\/p>\n
“Elderly people, as well as people with disabilities, especially under the conditions when they were forced to evacuate to our region in order to save their lives, remained alone, they need special help. Sometimes these people are in a very difficult situation. They can be immobile, lying down.<\/p>\n
There is a network of institutions in the region, which consists of 14 institutions: 3 geriatric boarding houses and 11 psychoneurological boarding schools, which without alternative provide assistance to such people,” explained Roman Andres.<\/p>\n
He also added that a significant number of people who can do without round-the-clock care are taken in by religious organizations. In cooperation with them, the regional authorities were able to ensure that all IDPs of vulnerable categories who live in Lviv Oblast and need help receive it.<\/p>\n
Roman Andres said that, as of now, there is a need to evacuate entire institutions in the east and south of Ukraine. In particular, there are representatives from 8 such institutions on the territory of Lviv region. Before the cold weather, the number of such people and the need for their evacuation increases.<\/p>\n
“The work we are doing now is work aimed at improving the living conditions, care and provision of social services to those people who have already come to us. As well as the expansion of our facilities to accommodate the additional number of people fleeing in the west of the country.<\/p>\n
This work began on the first day of the full-scale war. And I thank the heads of our institutions, who actually worked around the clock. No less thanks to the international funds and organizations that were the first to come to our aid and provided the basic level of the needs that we needed immediately,” Roman Andres emphasized.<\/p>\n
We will remind, also today the adviser to the head of the Lviv OVA Halyna Bordun spoke about the first results of the work of advisory and coordination centers for assistance to IDPs and, in general, about the work of the project “Medical-psychosocial assistance”.<\/p>\n
You can register a world request about the needs of IDPs at the link – https:\/\/cutt.ly\/PC42hJw<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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