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kin. Moreover, these regulations established that medical and/or
psychological care should be provided to the interns and former interns who
had suffered burns, injuries or harm in any of the fires that had occurred in
this establishment, between August 14, 1996, and July 25, 2001.
Psychological care to mitigate the physical or mental aftereffects for the
interns and former interns and their respective next of kin that could be
attributed directly to the fires referred to in the judgment of the Court was
also stipulated. Moreover, it was established that medical, psychological and
any other assistance would be free of charge, and also that basic available
medication would be provided to the interns and former interns of the said
Institute who had been victims, and their respective families. Another
Resolution was issued setting up an ad hoc Committee for the Physical and
Psychological Evaluation and Monitoring of the victims of the fires that
occurred in the Institute and their next of kin, within the Ministry of Health.
Representatives of different agencies take part in this committee and also the
representative of the Tekojojá Foundation;
d) Regarding the vocational assistance that the State must provide, and also a
program of special education for the former interns of the Institute between
August 14, 1996, and July 25, 2001, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to
establish an Inter-institutional Working Group, coordinated by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, with the task of uniting all the institutions and civil society
organizations involved in the work of complying with the operative
paragraphs of the judgment. The following attend the meetings of this
working group regularly: representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice and Labor, the Ministry of Public
Health and Social Welfare, the National Secretariat for Children and
Adolescents, the Ombudsman’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the
Supreme Court of Justice and the National Congress. Civil society is
represented by the victims’ next of kin, representatives of the “Panchito López
Victims Association,” and the Tekojojá Foundation. The focus of the meetings
has been the establishment of strategies for strict compliance with the
decisions of the Court. A partial list of the persons who are already receiving
assistance has been drawn up. Lastly, the Working Group has negotiated the
issue of credentials to identify the beneficiaries, in order to facilitate medical,
psychological and psychiatric services for the victims and their next of kin;
e) Regarding the State’s obligation to provide Mrs. Pérez with a place to bury her
son, Mario del Pilar Álvarez Pérez, in a cemetery near her residence, it
advised that “a place has been reserved for the victim’s remains in the
“Cementerio del Este,” one of the main cemeteries in Asunción,” and
f) Regarding the pecuniary payments for reparations and other expenses, in
February and June 2005, the State had reached agreement with the Ministry
of Finance for the payment of this compensation by increasing the budget for
the 2005 fiscal year. Moreover, the Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduría
General) had issued a favorable opinion on the payment of the compensation.
In this context, the budgetary needs for the 2006 fiscal year had already been
announced and submitted to the consideration of the National Congress by
the Executive Branch, and Congress had initiated the necessary studies for
the 2006 General Budget of National Expenditure. The Inter-institutional
Group had met with several parliamentarians to request that the pecuniary
reparations be included in the 2005 budget and, if this were not possible, that
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