A number of national roads still impassable

Some of the national roads were still blocked in the evening of December 17. Between Orhei and Rezina, the layer of snow on the road that connects the villages Cogalniceni and Busauca is around 3 meters. Snow removal teams cleared 2 km of the 4 km of road going to the settlements, Info-Prim Neo reports. “The roads M-14 Brest-Briceni, and Glodeni-Rascani were closed intentionally, while the roads Soroca-Drochia, and Balti-Floresti are impassable. Subdivisions of the Ministry of the Interior performed a number of operations on December 17. A road was made in Edinet district, between the settlements Mihaileni and Bratuseni, and the 100 vehicles that got stuck were able to move towards Rascani,” Liliana Puscasu, press officer of the Civil Protection and Emergencies Service, said in a press briefing on Monday afternoon. A 19-year-old man with appendicitis from Cuhnesti village of Edinet district was taken by sled to Zabriceni village, from where he was taken by a tractor to the hospital in Edinet. In Falesti, five employees of the Emergencies Service took a pregnant woman up to the ambulance. Another pregnant woman from Ocnita also needed medical assistance. The bus with 10 students that remained blocked on the Paharniceni-Orhei road was pulled out of snowdrifts. Another bus with 16 students was unblocked on the Ivancea-Orhei road. Contacted by Info-Prim Neo, Mother and Child Center director Stefan Gatcan said that the woman from Valea Radoaiei village of Floresti district, who entered delivery, gave birth to a healthy girl at home, with the assistance of the family doctor. The mother and child are out of danger. According to a communiqué from the Rezina District Council, 75 persons are still blocked in 15 units of transport on different roads of the district, especially the Rezina-Orhei road. There were unblocked 5 units of transport with 12 persons. Eight snowplows of SA “Drumuri-Rezina” remained blocked on the Rezina-Orhei and Rezina-Soldanesti roads. Local economic entities provided four units of transport that were involved in snow cleanup. Those who get stuck on the national or local roads are asked not to leave their vehicles so as not to hamper the snow removal. The people are asked to keep calm and seek help on the phone numbers: [023160191, 023161496 şi 901]