The official Chisinau invited again Tiraspol to the negotiating table to discuss the situation in the health system. Such a message was formulated by Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Cristina Lesnic, who on June 9 presented the WHO recommendations on how to act amid the COVID-19 pandemic that were formulated by WHO representatives during a technical visit paid to the Transnistrian region at the request of Chisinau, IPN reports.

“The broad and complex character of the WHO recommendations helps us confirm our suppositions concerning the situation in the Transnistrian region as regards the management of the current pandemic crisis. In this connection, we reiterate our position that each citizen, either they live on the right bank or on the left bank of the Nistru, should be and feel safe and should be helped in a difficult situation. The frontline doctors should benefit from conditions and the freedom to help the people so that we exclude the political factor. We firmly declare that only together the doctors can intervene and save people from this merciless virus,” Cristina Lesnic stated in a news conference.

The official noted that the assessment of the WHO representatives was requested following the self-isolation of the Transnistrian region and the unwillingness to cooperate with the Moldovan constitutional authorities. The information was collected through the agency of visits to health facilities and on-the-spot interviews with health professionals, using the WHO preparatory operating instrument with emphasis on detection and response.

The WHO recommendations refer to the laboratory system that is not accredited, the revision of the treatment protocols so that they are in compliance with the COVID-19 treatment protocols of the Republic of Moldova and the institution of standard operating procedures for exchanging patients and information together with the hospitals of Chisinau.

The World Health Organization recommends the institutionalization of the definition of standard case for persons who are eligible to do a COVID-19 test, strengthening of local specialists’ supervision capacities in accordance with the international standards on events-based supervisory model, working out of standard operating procedures for exchanging information with the National Public Health Agency and others.