The Health Ministry’s plan of action for 2013 provides that an electronic system for monitoring the infectious diseases will become practical at national level. The implementation of the system is close to an end and it will become functional from 2014.

Contacted by IPN, deputy head of the National Public Health Center Stela Gheorghita said the system started to be implemented in 2008. Any infectious disease will be introduced in an electronic database. This will enable the epidemiologists to know all the cases of infections and their development in Moldova.

The system will enable to take swift actions when there are identified cases of rabies or other infectious diseases and to exchange data with the National Food Safety Agency.

According to Stela Gheorghita, the system is partially functional already, but it will be fully serviceable towards the end of this year. “The electronic system will allow collecting evidence and transmitting it to labs electronically. The results will be also sent tectonically and the epidemiologists will not have to wait for a written answer from the lab,” she stated, adding that the system will help reduce the waiting time to see a doctors.