Hungarian pharmaceutical company donates consignment of medicines for Moldovans from rural areas

14:16 | 17.05.2016 Category: Social

Chisinau, 17 May /MOLDPRES/- The Gedeon Richter pharmaceutical company of Hungary today donated to the Health Ministry a consignment of medicines amounting to over 1 million 650,000 lei. The medication is to be distributed to patients from rural areas.

The consignment of medicines is composed of 14,000 boxes of Normodipine and over 33,600 boxes of Decaris. Normodipine treats cardiovascular diseases, and Decaris is an immunomodulator and an antihelminthic preparation, used to treat both children and adults.

“The cardiovascular diseases are some of the most widespread in Moldova and represent one of the main causes of deaths. Therefore, this aid is welcome, as well as the fact that the consignment of medicines will be meant for people from rural areas, who have poorer access to the health services”, State Secretary of the Health Ministry Nicolae Jelamschi said.

Hungarian Ambassador to Moldova Mátyás Szilágyi said that the donation had been made thanks to the most important pharmaceutical company from Hungary, Gedeon Richter, which has offices in Romania, Russia, Poland, Germany, India, over 45 countries in all. “The goal of the donation is to improve the health of people from rural areas. There are other numerous cooperation perspectives, due to be carried out, and we have to make every effort for these plans to be achieved”, he said.

“Given that the number of patients suffering from vascular diseases is on the rise, our company ruled to carry out this humanitarian project, by providing one of its most efficient medicines, Normodipine, to 14,000 patients from rural regions,” the director of the Gedeon Richter Representative Office in Moldova, Alexandr Derbentev, said.

The medicines are to be distributed to health centres from rural areas, proportionally throughout the country, according to a list of persons suffering from high blood pressure. The second medication will be distributed via family doctors.

According to data by the Health Ministry, in 2014, there were over 450,000 people suffering from vascular diseases, and about 47,000 cases of heart diseases are annually recorded in Moldova.

(Reporter A. Plitoc, editor M. Jantovan)

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