UNDP Moldova donated a batch of 400 protective gowns to the Center of Forensic Medicine and the National Administration of Penitentiaries (NAP). The equipment will help protect prison staff and forensic doctors against COVID-19 infection, IPN reports.

Andrei Pădure, deputy director of the Center of Forensic Medicine, said the equipment donated by UNDP will be transmitted to the forensic doctors and forensic psychiatrists throughout the country and will be used for the protection of the personnel who is involved in the examination of certain cases with presumptive or confirmed infection with COVID-19.

Vladimir Cojocaru, acting director of the NAP, said these gowns will help to protect to a greater extent both the employees and the persons deprived of their liberty, so as to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 infection in detention facilities.

Since the first days of the outbreak, UNDP has supported the Republic of Moldova as part of the joint response of the UN and development partners to the crisis generated by the COVID-19 infection.

The donation supplements another batch of 80 gowns, delivered by UNDP to the penitentiary system on April 9.