Dudieva: Beslan children cannot receive free treatment

In Beslan, the state programmes aimed at helping the victims of the 2004 terror act do not work; people are left alone with their problems, as stated by Susanna Dudieva, leader of the organization "Beslan Mothers". According to her story, children-former hostages cannot get their free of charge and expensive medication; they have to do it for their own money.

According to Ms Dudieva, the republic's authorities are doing a lot for somehow "putting people back to their feet", help former hostages and wounded persons. But the federal power has finished all the programmes. "Actually, there were no programmes as such. Children were taken to clinics of Moscow, St Petersburg and abroad. Now, no programmes work, people are left one to one with their problems; naturally, local funds are insufficient to send all in need to treatment and examinations, because, apart of hostages, the republic has other categories of citizens who need help," she said.

She and other members of the organization - Aneta Gadieva, Rita Sidakova and others - believe that nothing is done, because Russia lacks the law on the status of terror act victims.

Right after the terror act, 73 persons were recognized as invalids. Now, five years later, many of them were deprived of their disability status. Passing through the process of surveying for physical inability is very difficult, time-consuming and humiliating, Ms Dudieva marked.

She has added that many people who were healthy after the terror act are still in the post-stressful condition. She believes that many of them require psychological help even more than in the first days after the tragedy.