President Maia Sandu denied the accusations made by the Socialists against her adviser on health Ala Nemerenco, including about the property that she allegedly hides in Romania. She said Ala Nemerenco is an upright person who fought and will continue to fight corruption in the health system, IPN reports.

“Missis Nemereco, when she served as minister of health and social protection, provided the National Anticipation Center with considerable information, evidence about the corruption schemes she discovered, especially in the healthcare procurement process. We didn’t see results of investigations into these schemes, but now see attacks launched against her namely because they are afraid”, Maia Sandu stated in a news conference, underlining the necessity of fighting misinformation.

President Sandu noted she will insist that all the information about corruption in the health system should be examined and those involved should be penalized, not kept in posts so that they continue stealing hundreds of millions as a result of public procurement, depriving this way the citizens of medicines of a high quality and equipment that would save their lives.

In a news conference earlier, MPs of the Party of Socialists demanded that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection should annul the order by which Ala Nemerenco was issued with a master’s diploma. They also demanded that Ala Nemerenco should immediately tender her resignation from the post of adviser to the President. MP Alla Darovannaya noted she received information saying that Ala Nemerenco and another six Moldovans received a master’s diploma from the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy without taking admission exams, without taking part in lectures and without defending a master’s thesis, based on an order issued by the Ministry of Health. The MPs said that if the Ministry ignores their demands, they will make approaches to the Prosecutor General’s Office.