Although the Intersectoral Strategy for the development of parenting skills and
competences has a deadline for execution in 2020, the National Action Plan for the
implementation of this Strategy developed for 2018-2020 has not been adopted so
far.
Although, according to the statistical data presented by the National Social Insurance House,
the amount of the single childbirth allowance increased from 6303 MDL to 8299 MDL for every
child born alive,
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however, a serious problem analyzed by the Children's Ombudsman in this
regard is represented by the monthly allowance granted for the uninsured persons, which currently
constitutes the amount of 640 MDL / per month141.
Another parallel in ensuring the right to life, on the protection segment of future generations,
examined by the People's Advocate for Children's Rights, was the situation regarding the conditions
in which women in the Republic of Moldova give birth. From the information gathered, it is found
that there are currently 34 maternity hospitals in the country. However, although the number of
maternity hospitals is high, 60% of all women who have to give birth go to only 4 of these
maternity hospitals, and the remaining 40% - in the remaining 30. According to specialists in the
field, 70% of women who gave birth in these 30 maternity hospitals and children born had to suffer
various complications up to cases resulting in death, due to poor endowment of these units or due to
lack of specialists at work.142.
The situation is also alarming from the perspective of ensuring the child's right to life from
the first moments of his birth. In most of these institutions there are no resuscitation departments
and there are no doctors specialized in resuscitation, the patients being practically left to their fate in
case of emergency. Thus, in the context of the complaints received by the People's Advocate Office,
during 2020, there will be carried out a monitoring on the observance of the right to life in the
segment of accessibility to health services in maternity hospitals in the country.
In this regard, the People's Advocate for Children's Rights referring to the General Comment
of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child no. 19 (2016)143, notes that child development is “a
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