The State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality, Tea Akhvlediani, reported the Parliament on the activity of the Office for 2022. The report included the state policy on reconciliation and engagement, as well as the civil equality and integration directions. According to her, 2022 was particularly teeming with new challenges.

“Various state programs operating in the field of health care have become available to persons living in the occupied regions, registered with a neutral personal number, which is another mechanism introduced by us under the peace initiative.

Within the framework of the peace policy, it is extremely important for us to promote access to quality, free healthcare and education for the population living in the occupied regions, and for this purpose, to continue working to ensure the proper functioning of the relevant mechanisms and their further improvement.

In terms of health care, together with the continuous and effective functioning of the referral state program, the assistance of Abkhazia region with appropriate medicines and vaccines continues.

What is new - this year, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, changes were made to 3 decrees of the Government of Georgia, as a result of which various state programs operating in the field of health care, be it hepatitis C, dialysis, children’s onco-hematological services, diabetes or other important areas, became available to the persons living in the occupied regions, registered with a neutral personal number, which is another mechanism introduced by us under the peace initiative”, - said the State Minister.