The medical prescription for “Maturinol” was banned because of a personal conflict with a former faculty colleague. This medication does not have side effects, the head of the Mother and Child Center Ion Ilinciuc, who is the author of the prescription, said in a news conference on July 26, Info-Prim Neo reports. Ion Ilinciuc said that the vice director of the Mother and Child Center Petru Stratulat wanted this preparation to be banned for personal reasons. “There are certain personal interests. He has envied me since we were at the university. I repeatedly told him that we should do something for the disabled children. In 2007, a ministerial commission set up at his request banned the medicine for newborns. The Medication Agency did as Stratulat wanted. This is not right. Instead of looking for the cause why the preparation makes the children invalids, Stratulat hides the number of children with disabilities. He even received the Labor Glory from Voronin,” said Ion Ilinciuc. In the news conference, the mother of a child who had been treated with “Maturinol” on the basis of the prescription issued by Professor Ilinciuc said that owing to this medication, her child develops normally. “The doctors told us that he suffers from hydrocephaly and is an invalid. This medicine has been administered to the child for two years. Other children of his age who are perfectly healthy do not yet speak, but he counts and recites poems. We cannot obtain the preparation now that is was banned,” said the woman. Ion Ilinciuc also said that “Maturinol” is made on the basis of a medical prescription and no authorization is needed for this. “The components of this preparation stimulate the development of the nervous system. I administered “Maturinol” to both of my children. The doctor can issue any prescription, but the drugstores are obliged to check if the medicines in the preparation do not interact and form toxic substances,” said Ion Ilinciuc. For his part, Petru Stratulat said that Ion Ilinciuc should have clinically tested the preparation before prescribing it so as to obtain the approval of the Health Ministry’s Bioethics Commission. “Maybe the medicine is good, but it should be made according to requirements. It’s not a matter of envy or something else,” he stated. Anticorruption officers found 12 bottles of “Maturinol” at a drugstore in Chisinau on July 25. In 2009, the Ministry of Health banned the medicine for newborn babies. More than 2 000 children have been treated with “Maturinol” since 2005.