Moldova's Institute of Mother and Child receives consignment of advanced equipment

Chisinau, 3 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita today participated in an event of delivery of a consignment of advanced equipment in the field of obstetrics and gynecology to the Obstetrics Section No 1 of the Perinatal Centre of the Institute of Mother and Child, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.    

Attending the ceremony were also the leadership of the medical institution, Health Minister Ala Nemerenco, MPs, diplomats and foreign partners in the person of His Excellency Kent D. Logsdon – Ambassador of the United States in Chisinau and Resident Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Moldova Nigina Abaszada.  

The overall value of the equipment is of 550,000 dollars and it was purchased through a project initiated and implemented by UNFPA Moldova, with the financial support of the U.S. Government.

In her speech, the prime minister said that the today’s event represented an important step to the fulfillment of the government’s priorities in the health sector – endowing the medical institutions from all over Moldova with modern equipment. According to Natalia Gavrilita, till the end of this year, another eight hospitals from Moldova will be endowed with last generation equipment.

„We will make efforts, so that each person from Moldova, adult or child, has access to qualitative medical services, to basic medicines and safe and efficient vaccines. We are set to construct two regional hospitals, in Balti and Cahul, and to modernize all district medical institutions. We want everybody healthy children to be born, in conditions of safety, and pregnant women to enjoy the best assistance both during the pregnancy and at birth,’’ PM Natalia Gavrilita stressed.         

Due to the investments made within the project, about 15,000 births will be received annually in safer conditions and the newly born children in serious conditions will be saved thanks to modern apparatus of reanimation and intensive therapy.

More than 2,500 births are annually registered at the Obstetrics Section of the Perinatal Centre of the Institute of Mother and Child. Patients with the most serious pathologies from all regions of Moldova, including patients refugees from Ukraine, come here.   

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