Moldovan cabinet appoints new state secretaries at health, justice ministries

Chisinau, 15 March /MOLDPRES/ - Acting Prime Minister Aureliu Ciocoi today summoned a cabinet meeting, during which the state secretaries at the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry (MSMPS) were appointed, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

„The Constitutional Court allowed us to appoint state secretaries to vacant offices, a thing which we must do without delay, as we have to manage a crisis, especially as regards the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry, and the Justice Ministry also is to be supplied with professionals from the system. I emphasize that the vacant positions will be supplied with people from the system, who have nothing in common with the political sphere and whose expertise will allows us efficiently manage the crises which we face,’’ the acting prime minister said in the beginning of the meeting.       

Therefore, the cabinet approved the appointment to the office of state secretary at MSMPS as of 16 March of Igor Curov, who is physician and presently holds the position of deputy head of the Emergency Hospital and in the last 15 years he has held more leadership offices at the Emergency Medicine Institute.  Denis Cernelea, who has been exercising the office of directing of the Chisinau-based COVID-19 Sorting Centre, was the second MSMPS state secretary appointed. The third state secretary appointed is Vasile Cusca, the MSMPS employee since 1999, with a rich experience in the social protection sector.     

„I congratulate the new colleagues, I wish them success in the extremely difficult activity of stopping this wave of pandemic, which covers the country,’’ Aureliu Ciocoi said. He noted that the state secretaries appointed today would work only during the exercising of the mandate of the acting cabinet.    

The government also approved the appointment of new state secretaries at the Justice Ministry: Alexandru Plesca, the current deputy director of the national inspectorate of probation, and Tatiana Tverdun, an employee of the Justice Ministry since 2003. At the same time, the cabinet today appointed Valentina  Iusuphodjaev as director of the National Cinematography Centre, after she had won a contest for this position, organized by the Education, Culture and Research Ministry. Her mandate will last 4 years.        

photo: Government