Maternity hospital from north Moldova city cease working

Chisinau, 3 April /MOLDPRES/ - The maternity hospital from the northern Soroca city today ceased working and women from the settlement will be able to bear children in Floresti or Chisinau. The institution’s employees confirmed the information for MOLDPRES.

„The situation here is not quite good, as three physicians stay at home in quarantine and the physician who is on duty today X rayed and has pneumonia. We are all waiting to make testings next week. All mothers and children were discharged; there is nobody in the maternity hospital. We hope that everything will be all right,’’ the chief nurse of the maternity hospital, Aliona Vovc, has told the Observatorul de Nord (Northern Observer) publication.       

"The Floresti maternity hospital agreed to receive the women from Soroca and those who are suspected of infection will bear at the Maternity Hospital No 2 from Chisinau. Nobody from our section has been tested so far; yet, today two of our employees are likely to be tested and hospitalized.  I am in quarantine starting from 2 April, as my wife, physician anesthesiologist, was detected with COVID-19, ‘’ the head of the Soroca Maternity Hospital, Igor Babara, said, cited by the aforementioned publication.       

Health, Labour and Social Protection Viorica Dumbraveanu today informed that the Soroca district hospital remained functional, under continuous monitoring of the Health Ministry.   

Information updated by the ministry on 3 April shows that there are 71 people infected with COVID-19 in Soroca. Also, two cases of recovery and 611 persons under medical supervision are registered in this settlement.