The SPOLU coalition wants to export disabled citizens to the Sudetenland, claims Hřib
HŘIB VS. TOGETHER
According to outgoing Prague mayor Zdenek Hřiba, SPOLU wants to export disabled citizens of Prague to large-capacity buildings in the Sudetes. “Pražské SPOLU wants to continue the communist practice of exporting disabled Prague citizens to the Sudetenland tens of kilometers from home,” wrote Hřib on Twitter, saying that the Pirates reject such an approach. “Pirates refuse to return to the old order and move social service clients away from their families in Prague,” it is written on pirate website.
Acting mayor Hřib claims that the new Prague coalition TOGETHER continues communist practices and exports disabled Praguers to the Sudetenland, tens of kilometers away. “To large-capacity buildings of border institutions instead of trying to return them to Prague and ensure personal home-type care. We reject such an approach,” adds Hřib. The statement of the SPOLU coalition on the piracy accusation is being investigated by the editors.
Pražské SPOLU wants to continue the communist practice of exporting disabled Prague citizens to the Sudetenland dozens of kilometers from home. To the large-capacity buildings of border institutions instead of trying to get them back to Prague and ensuring home-type personal care. We reject such an approach.
— Zdenek Hřib (@ZdenekHrib)
November 24, 2022
“The Pirates refuse to return to the old order and push social service clients away from their families in Prague,” the Pirates state on their website. Residents of Prague who are struggling with a disability should be able to use the relevant services in the territory of Prague if they show interest in them. According to the Pirates, the decision to move disabled citizens out of Prague is contrary to modern standards of care, the procedure of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the EU and the law.
“The practice in the form of relegating them to institutions far from home, often even to another end of the country, considered by the Piráti to be undignified, inadequate and outdated,” states the Piráti, adding that placing disabled Praguers far from home would undoubtedly be a step backwards. “At Wednesday’s control committee, it became clear that colleagues from the ODS in this regard demand a return to the old order, which we want in the interests of clients and their families,” says Jana Komrsková, representative and member of the control committee of the capital city of Prague.
“The wishes and needs of the client and his family should come first. Prague must be able to find social services corresponding to the standards of the 21st century, therefore it is necessary to create new capacities in the territory of the capital and come up with the most sensitive solutions as part of the transformation,” says the deputy minister of labor and social affairs and representative of the capital city of Prague Zuzana Freitas Lopesová.