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/ 27 May, 2021

Aviasan service of Moldova to have eight new ambulances

Agenția Informațională de Stat

Chisinau, 27 May /MOLDPRES/ - Eight mobile intensive therapy ambulances, of which two ones for the carriage of children and six meant for adults, were distributed to the Aviasan service today. The overall cost of the eight vehicles is about one million euros.

According to data by the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry (MSMPS), the ambulances were purchased within the World Bank’s project, Emergency Response to COVID-19 in Moldova, and are meant for the assisted medical transportation of a patient in critical condition and are endowed with equipment, medical devices and intensive therapy medicines.

„The ambulances bought will contribute to improving the quality of medical services provided to patients in serious condition and significantly strengthening the technical and material basis of the Emergency Medicine Institute. Highly appreciations to the World Bank’s team, for making possible the acquisition of this consignment of ambulances,’’ the MSMPS’ state secretary, Igor Curov, said.

The two neonatal ambulances are equipped with artificial breathing devices/ventilator, incubator for newly born child; the ones for adults with: defibrillator, electrocardiographs, pumps for perfusion and infusion, glucometers, humidifiers, tonometers, aspirators, as well as oxygen cylinders for supplying patients with oxygen.

MSMPS statistics shows that Aviasan service special specialists annually carry out about 4,000 missions with the movement of specialists to hospitals from the territory, which provide the consultation, diagnosing, treatment, including the surgical ones, as well as the assisted transportation of patients in serious condition. About 3,000 patients in serious condition are yearly carried to hospital institutions.

photo: MSMPS

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