The National Emergency Medical Assistance Service AVIASAN was offered eight new reanimobiles that were bought with the support of the World Bank that provided €1.140 million. Two of the eight reanimobiles are intended for the transportation of children, IPN reports.

Igor Curov, secretary of state at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, said the eight reanimation vehicles meet the international standards in medicine and will contribute to increasing the survival rate among patients in a serious state.

Mihail Ciocanu, director of the Emergency Medicine Institute, said AVIASAN works nonstop. Annually, 4,000 to 5,000 patients need this emergency service. It is daily requested by 10-16 patients in a serious state. 45% of the requests to AVIASAN are for newborns, who need intensive care and urgent surgery. The service also ensures the transportation of medicines and medical devices to national hospitals.

Natalia Chilian, senior doctor at AVIASAN Service, said the eight reanimobiles are outfitted with defibrillators, electronic devices that monitor cardiac output, perfusion pumps, ventilators and respiratory function monitors. The two reanimobiles for children also have incubators.

The reanimobiles were purchased in the framework of the World Banks project “Moldova COVID-19 Emergency Response Project”.