More than 6,000 people will receive medical care at a new health center that was opened in Iurceni village of Nisporeni district. The center will provide primary medical assistance services to the villages Iurceni, Bursuc, Boltun and Cristesti, IPN reports, quoting a communiqué of the Health Center.

Attending the opening ceremony, Minister of Health Andrei Usatyi said the visit to the doctor must become a tradition for everyone. “I recommend all the country’s people to see a doctor regularly for prophylaxis purposes, with or without reason, so as to have a long and healthy life,” he stated.

The Iurceni Health Center was built within the World Bank-funded Health and Social Assistance Services Project. The cost of the project was about 2.25 million lei. The center was outfitted with the necessary medical equipment and with sanitary transport.

One family doctor and ten medical assistants work at the center to provide the population with medical services of a high quality.