Hospitals from Moldova to benefit from donation needed for treatment of COVID patients

Chisinau, 24 January /MOLDPRES/ - A consignment of 3,000 of pulse oximeters and 300 oxygen concentrators on behalf of the European Union and World Health Organization (WHO) was donated to the Chisinau-based Emergency Medicine Institute today.   

„It is about an important donation of equipment, vitally needed for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. We face the fifth quite infectious wave of the epidemic and these devices will be essential for us,’’ the director of the Emergency Medicine Institute, Mihail Ciocan, said.  

For his part, a state secretary at the Health Ministry, Ion Prisacaru, said that this donation was part of a continuous support on behalf of development partners, which help us cope with the pandemic. ‘’Each medical employee, each medical institution feels this support. Due to this assistance, we have coped with the pandemic so far and we continue doing this. We are prepared for this wave; we have experience behind; we just need the community’s solidarity, whom we ask to be vaccinated and to get out of the pandemic as soon as possible,’’ the official noted.    

A representative of the EU Delegation in Moldova, Gintas Baranauskas, reconfirmed that the European Union would continue backing Moldova. ‘’We are by the side of the people from Moldova and we will help by all ways to the consolidation of the country’s medical system and for overcoming the crisis triggered by the new-type coronavirus,’’ Baranauskas said.   

„Two years ago, the first cases of infection with the new virus were registered on the European continent. The pandemic has not ended as yet and today we are here with the equipment which will be able to prevent the spread of the disease. Statistics shows that the situation is overcome easier where the vaccination rate is higher; therefore, we urge everybody to be vaccinated and together do our utmost to get out of this pandemic,’’ a WHO representative in Moldova, Miljana Grbic, said.    

The donation is worth 253,000 euros. Those 3,000 pulse oximeters and 300 oxygen concentrators will be distributed to all medical institutions of Moldova, including the ones from the left bank of Dniester, depending on the number of beds.