Republic of Moldova

THE EUROPEAN UNION DONATES MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO PERINATAL CENTRES FROM TIRASPOL AND BENDER

Chisinau, 21 January, 2011.  The perinatal centres from Tiraspol and Bender are now endowed with specialised equipment necessary to ensure quality health care for pregnant women and newborns from Transnistrian region. The equipment was donated by the project “Support to Confidence Building Measures”, funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme.

The new medical equipment (neonatal ventilators, basic incubators, portable pulse oxymeters, laringoscopes, cardiotocographs, anesthesia machine, specialised monitors etc.) will help the medical institutions from Tiraspol and Bender to improve the quality of perinatal medicine in the Transnistrian region.

The list of donated equipment was developed by an international expert in cooperation with local specialists as result of an assessment visit to Moldova. The devices will the used by the perinatal centres to maintain vital functions, monitoring, and emergency testing of severe cases. The total cost of the equipment donated by project is about 468.000 Euro.

The Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Moldova, Ambassador Dirk Schuebel, said that with these two projects in Tiraspol and Bender, mothers and children in the region will benefit from highly specialized new medical equipment. They will also benefit from high-quality treatment as a result of the trainings provided by the Moldovan Association of Perinatal Health. “I would like to welcome the involvement of the perinatal centre teams as well as the good cooperation of the Transnistrian authorities in the project. This is not a stand-alone initiative: the overall perinatal system in Transnistrian region will benefit from this programme in the coming months. The EU, indeed, plans to launch new projects, in particular in the social, business and environmental fields. These projects - that aim at building confidence - are implemented for the benefit of the Transnistrian and of the Moldovan society as a whole”, mentioned Ambassador Dirk Schuebel.

To ensure the efficient use of the equipment, the reanimation sections of the perinatal centres were repaired with financial means from the local budget. The beneficiaries are confident that the modern equipment donated by the project will help the doctors physicians from Tiraspol and Bender to save people’s life.  

In spring 2010, a memorandum of cooperation between the specialists in perinatology from Chisinau and Tiraspol was signed in the framework of the project. As a result, the Association of Perinatal Health trained 260 neonatologists, pediatricians, nurses and obstetricians from the region, offering computers and presentation equipment. The participants studied how to take care of newborns, how to apply the protocols for monitoring the evolution of the birth, how to act in obstetricians’ emergencies etc.

For contact: Victor Munteanu, Project Manager, UNDP Moldova, tel. 260786, e-mail: victor.munteanu@undp.org

Hubert Duhot, Attaché /Project Manager, EU Delegation, tel. 505210, e-mail: Hubert.DUHOT@eeas.europa.eu _______________________________________________________________
The project “Support to Confidence Building Measures” aims to address the needs of Transnistrian communities including the security zone by increasing their access to basic social and economic services, as well as to objective and diversified sources of information. The establishment of cross-river partnerships will be supported, creating parallel opportunities for stakeholders from both sides to interact, thereby promoting economic cooperation and contributing towards confidence building among the actors and the population at large. The project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme.