Poland provides Moldova with consignment of equipment to fight COVID-19
16:55 | 22.05.2020 Category: Social
Chisinau, 22 May /MOLDPRES/ - Poland has provided 37 oxygen concentrators worth 23,500 euros to Moldova’s health system. A ceremony on the equipment’s delivery took place today.
The event was held on the area of the warehouse of the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry, in the presence of Minister Viorica Dumbraveanu and Ambassador Bartłomiej Zdaniuk.
The oxygen concentrators are part of the third consignment of medical equipment donated within the Emergencies Fund of the Solidarity Fund PL in Moldova.
The Emergencies Fund, worth 50,000 euros, was launched in last March, in order to back the health system of Moldova through measures of fight against the new virus. The following goods were purchased through this fund: 16,380 protection masks, 800 protection costumes, 3,800 litres of disinfectant, 50 sprayers and 27 small medical equipment (medical containers, no-contact thermometers, anti-bacterial lamps); 38 oxygen concentrators.
The equipment earlier donated by Poland was produced by native economic agents. The consumables were donated to the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry in late April 2020 and in cooperation with the Embassy of Poland in Chisinau, the new equipment was distributed to medical units from the districts of Edinet, Comrat, Taraclia, as well as to the Transnistrian region.
At the same time, an oxygen concentrator was donated to the Chisinau-based Toma Ciorba Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases and another 37 units were bought from Turkey and are distributed to the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry in 30 medical institutions of Moldova.
