Moldova's National Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Assistance Centre to have three new ambulances

Chisinau, 12 December /MOLDPRES/ - The National Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Centre (CNAMUP) will have three new ambulances. The C-type ambulances, worth over eight million lei, are endowed with advanced equipment for the carriage of new-born children and lately confined women in critical condition and were donated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).    
Attending the event on the reception of ambulances were Health Minister Ala Nemerenco, the UNFPA representative in Moldova, Karina Nersesyan, the CNAMUP deputy medical director, Serghei Suman.      
In her speech, Health Minister Ala Nemerenco said that the ministry was constantly investing in the health of the mother and child, in order to provide them with qualitative medical care. The minister stressed that, in the last three years, 12 perinatal centres had been modernized nationally with UNFPA’s support.    
Nemerenco thanked UNFPA and the U.S. Government – strategic partners of the Health Ministry, which have a substantial contribution to the development of the national health system.
At the same time, at the event, UNFPA donated a consignment of medical manikins to the National Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Centre and the Balti-based Clinical Hospital.   
The ambulances, donated by UNFPA, purchased with the financial support of the United States’ Government, are endowed with advanced medical devices of mobile intensive therapy, which allow, in conditions of maximal safety, to transfer the babies in critical condition to medical institutions for specialized care.     
Thus, each ambulance has a transport incubator, neonatal ventilator for artificial breathing, monitor for measuring the vital functions, emergency aspirator for new-born children, defibrillator, laryngoscope, emergency first-aid kit. They work as an autonomous feeding system, guaranteeing uninterrupted quickness.     
The Health Ministry informs that the procurement of new ambulances is a priority for the institution. In the last two years, the Ministry has endowed, from different sources, the emergency medical assistance Service with 209 ambulances worth about 268 million lei.