Moldovan PM asks authorities to ensure needed conditions for providing first aid in hot weather

Chisinau, 2 August /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today summoned an operative meeting with representative of the authorities in charge of interventions in emergency situations. The discussions were focused on the bad weather conditions of the last period, the already undertaken measures and the necessary ones to ensure protection of citizens in hot weather, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.    

According to information unveiled by the Civil Protection and Emergency Situations Service, the high temperatures of the last period caused an increase in the number of fires in open air. During July alone, firemen intervened to extinguish over 750 fires, most of them triggered by people’s imprudence. To prevent fires, competent authorities were banned from burning dry vegetation, setting open fires in unarranged places, were obliged to delimit settlements and forestry farms by protection strips.   

The prime minister was also informed that, on the hot weather period, 17 rehabilitation points had been opened in Moldova, which work daily starting from 11:00- till 18:00, and provide assistance to people hit by high temperatures. Over 45,000 persons have received medical care there so far.    

At the same time, to prevent cases of death because of the hot weather, five campaigns of informing on measures of protection and providing first aid have been initiated.  

In the context, the prime minister asked the structures of the Health Ministry, Interior Ministry and local public authorities to permanently cooperate and be prepared for providing the first aid to persons in danger. The PM demanded that, on this period with high temperatures, increased attention be paid to elderly people. Thus, the old persons who have no relatives or close people nearby to take care of them, should be visited at home by social assistants and representatives of the local public authorities, and be provided first aid.    

At the same time, to prevent cases of drowning, Prime Minister Pavel Filip stressed the need to raise the responsibility of owners of lakes and water basins. Also, the PM highlighted the necessity to revise the school syllabus by introducing special lessons on protection measures during swimming and way the first aid is provided in emergency situations.    

(Editor A. Raileanu)