Thirty ventilators for children to medical institutions of Moldova

Chisinau, 26 May /MOLDPRES/ - The Federal Health Ministry of Germany donated thirty ventilators for children to medical institutions of Moldova.    

The ventilators for children are worth 600,000 euros. Ten of them were delivered to the Institute of Mother and Child and the other 20 will be distributed to more settlements of Moldova. At the same time, specialists will organize informative classes for physicians and engineers due to work with the equipment donated.  

At the event, Health Minister Ala Nemerenco thanked the German partners for the donation. ‘’We need advanced equipment, in order to intervene promptly and efficiently, especially when it comes to the newly born children. Due to this assistance, the capacities of the maternity hospitals from Moldova will be improved and the services provided will be at the level of all international standards,’’ Ala Nemerenco said.

For his part, a representative of the Embassy of Germany in Moldova, Ullrich Kinne, stressed that the medical equipment would help Moldovan physicians to provide quality medical services to children. ‘’We established as early as last year that the medical institutions from Moldova need this equipment and we are quite happy that we managed to bring them. The Moldovan-German cooperation is long-lasting, based on trust, which we are willing to maintain in the long run as well,’’ the German official added.