The Ministry of Health and the network of nongovernmental organizations that offer assistance to elderly or sick people aim to sign a cooperation agreement to develop integrated homecare services at national level. The issue was discussed in a roundtable meeting, IPN reports.

In the Republic of Moldova, there are almost 1,000 organizations that provide community services, but only 30 of these are active. These will be helped to overcome the difficulties faced in the process of providing medical and social services at home.

“Good cooperation between the Ministry of Health and nongovernmental organizations in the field will increase the access of elderly and sick people to social and medical homecare services. We will be able to monitor the quality of the provided community services and to swiftly solve the problems that hamper their development,” said Minister of Health Ruxanda Glavan.

“The social and medical assistance at home envisions close cooperation between the family doctor, medical assistant and social worker. In the settlements where there are no nongovernmental organizations specialized in the provision of medical-social assistance, this cooperation does not exist and the elderly and sick people do not benefit from high-quality community services,” said Tamara Adasan, head of the network of nongovernmental organizations specialized in homecare services.

Currently, the network provides medical and social assistance at home for almost 60,000 people.