Moldovan medical institution receives new ambulances, modern equipment for emergency medical assistance teams

Chisinau, 13 April /MOLDPRES/ - National Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Assistance Centre (CNAMUP) today received medical equipment and two new ambulances. They were purchased by the Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Moldova, with the financial support of the U.S. government, within the project, Humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and neighbour countries. The donation’s overall value is of 300,000 dollars.    
The ambulances are endowed with devices necessary for the providing of emergency medical assistance, assessing patients’ state, stabilization and monitoring at the place of call and during the carriage to hospitals.    
The C-type ambulance was distributed to the mobile intensive therapy team of the emergency medical assistance substation (SAMU) from the Centru district of Chisinau. The B-type ambulance was provided to the Calaraseuca AMU point from the northern Ocnita district, which swerves the Otaci town – one of the border crossing points with the largest number of refugees registered since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. 
The donation also includes 315 frontal lanterns, 45 pulse oxymeters and 22 electrocardiographs.    
The donation will contribute to ensuring an enhanced quickness of interventions, assisted transportation at the pre-hospital phase and a considerable improvement of the quality of medical services provided to residents. As a result, the patients will benefit from quicker interventions in case of major medical and surgical emergencies, cardiovascular, neurological, traumatological, respiratory, pediatric ones.     
State Secretary at the Health Ministry Ion Prisăcaru said the activities planned by the ministry on the next period regard especially the regionalization of the medical services.  
According to statistics, so far, the emergency medical assistance service has provided medical assistance to 13,648 refugees, of whom over 6,300 were hospitalized.    
Photo: CNAMUP