Single Crisis Management Centre set up in Moldova

Chisinau, 28 February /MOLDPRES/ - The Single Crisis Management Centre has become operational started from today. This structure will coordinate the assistance effort made by the government, international organizations, private initiative and volunteers. Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita made statements to this effect at a news conference today. The Centre’s head is the government’s secretary general, Dumitru Udrea. Representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are also to work in the management structure, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

The centre will have a green line, due to be operational starting from 1 March at 9:00 and where citizens will be able to put questions to learn details on how can they help in the emerged situation.

Natalia Gavrilita said that, besides the warehouse from the Moldexpo centre, another 3 centres of collecting donations on behalf of private people become operation as of today. The central warehouse where this assistance will be stocked and sorted becomes operational today.      

According to the PM, the first transport with strictly necessary humanitarian assistance for refugees on the behalf of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees will enter Moldova on 1 March.   

At the same time, Natalia Gavrilita stressed the importance of informing from sure sources and denied some of them which presently circulate in the public space. ‘’The situation is under control in the country, there are no risks for citizens,’’ Natalia Gavrilita said.  

According to Dumitru Udrea, at the Single centre, there are cells dedicated to specific tasks: goods; accommodation, medical assistance, transport, food products, psychological counseling; consular and legal services; volunteering platform; coordination of the economic agents and international assistance.     

Citizens can donate: folding beds; mattresses; blankets, pillows, towels; bedclothes; clothes and footwear; unused toys and new games; plates and dishes; personal hygiene products; detergents; diapers, tinned products; other packed food products.     

Dumitru Udrea said that the donation by private people of culinary, congealed products, animal origin products was banned, except for the natural honey, tinned meat, fish and powder or condensed milk. All food products donated must be in intact wrapping, with legible and visible validity term.  

On 24-28 February 2022, 71,359 Ukrainian citizens have entered Moldova and 33,173 left the country. Presently, there are 38,186 citizens of Ukraine in Moldova, who entered in the last 100 hours.  

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