Graduates of Chisinau-based State University of Medicine and Pharmacy take oath

Chisinau, 12 June /MOLDPRES/ - Hundreds of graduates of the Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy (USMF) today took the oath of physician and pharmacist at the headquarters of the Chisinau-based Nicolae Sulac National Palace.

Attending the event were the head of the parliamentary commission for culture, education, research, youth, sport and mass media, Vladimir Hotineanu, head of the parliament’s commission for social protection, health and family, Valentina Buliga, Education, Culture and Research Minister Monica Babuc, Health, Labour and Social Protection Minister Svetlana Cebotari, other official persons.    

In his speech, Rector of the Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy Ion Ababii has said that 992 persons successfully passed the graduation exams in 2018, of whom 700 young people from Moldova and 292 citizens from 13 countries. “As many as 450 physicians have been trained for the national health system at Medicine, 105 – at Dentistry, 110 at Pharmacy and 35 specialists at the specialty Preventive Medicine,” the USMF rector said.    

For her part, Education, Culture and Research Minister Monica Babuc congratulated the graduates. She voiced hope that they would contribute to the flourishing of Moldova, so that we have a high-tech medicine, just as we have an extraordinary education, culture and human potential.    

”Alma Mater represents the next step in the education of a man after parents and school. Running the risk of repeating the urge by professor Hotineanu, I say: My Dears, try to find your occupation at home, in Moldova. Do you know which are,  for instance, the performances of Japan in medicine? First of all, the Japanese create one of the most high-tech medical equipments in the world. Work and love for the country, respect for everything the ancestors have created made the Japanese, who went through an odious war and two atomic bombardments, have a modern medicine,” Monica Babuc stressed.       

The foreign citizens will the take oath of physician and pharmacist on 13 June. Most graduates are coming from Israel – 271, four are from the USA, three graduates are from Romania and Russia each, two ones are from Turkey and Syria each and one graduate is from Canada, Lebanon, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq and Yemen each.    

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor A. Raileanu)