Medicines for treating hypertension and osteoporosis that were donated by a Hungarian pharmaceutical company were distributed to the Placement Center for Elderly People and Persons with Disabilities of Chisinau on November 7 and will later be also taken to the psycho-neurological hospitals of Bădiceni village in Soroca district, of Cocieri village in Dubăsari district and of Brânzeni village in Edineț district. The value of the donation is 2.6 million lei, IPN reports.

According to secretary general of state at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection Boris Gîlca, one of the donated preparations helps reduce the deficiency of calcium in bones and prevent fractures, while the second, last-generation medicine is used to treat hypertension. They were both homologated in the Republic of Moldova. The Ministry would have found with difficulty such a large sum of money for purchasing a similar quantity of drugs. The donated medicines will be enough for a year.

Gheorghe Bejenari, director of the Placement Center for Elderly People and Persons with Disabilities, said the donation is very necessary. “Of the 163 beneficiaries of the Center, more than two thirds are elderly people. A number of 85 persons suffer from hypertension, while 55 suffer from osteoporosis,” he stated.

Alexandr Derbentsev, director of the representative office of the Hungarian pharmaceutical company in Moldova, said social responsibility is one of the company’s responsibilities. The given assistance will benefit the people in Moldova.

In drugstores, the medicine for treating osteoporosis costs 265 lei, while the drug for arterial hypertension costs about 120 lei.