In the case of “Toma Ciorbă” Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital and the Dermatology and Communicable Diseases Hospital, fusion by absorption takes place. According to Minister of Health Ala Nemerenco, such a reform was necessary because the Ministry of Health obtained funding to equip a modern microbiological laboratory, while the infrastructure of “Toma Ciorbă” Hospital doesn’t allow setting up such a laboratory there, IPN reports.
Ala Nemerenco said that the scandal around “Toma Ciorbă” Hospital was meant to mislead public opinion as all bona fide doctors of the institution understand the need to reform this institution. The hospital doesn’t have a resuscitation unit, which is unimaginable for an infectious diseases hospital.
“In the Republic of Moldova, it is very easy to manipulate. There were many stories, but no one, not even the politicians who criticized this merger and even the departments that protested saw that there is fusion by absorption there. This means that “Toma Ciorbă” Hospital doesn’t undergo any changes. Doctors said they were on the front line during the COVID pandemic. I apologize, but I disagree. They didn’t have the opportunity to be on the front line, although they should have, because they didn’t have a resuscitation unit and any patient in a more serious condition had to be transferred to another hospital,” Ala Nemerenco stated in the program “The Shadow Cabinet” on JurnalTV channel.
According to the minister, the authorities have obtained generous funding from a French foundation for equipping a microbiological laboratory with modern equipment. As the building of “Toma Ciorbă” Hospital is in a deplorable state, a laboratory inside this institution cannot be set up.
“We have obtained funds and we have a memorandum signed with an important foundation in France to create a modern laboratory, which will be financed by them. It’s a virological, microbiological laboratory. The problem is we do not have where to base it at “Toma Ciorbă” Hospital. When the delegation came from France, the administration showed a two-story building in a deplorable condition and said the building was going to be repaired and then the laboratory would be set up there. The French representatives left scared. Were they ashamed of our insolence? I told them that I will find space at the other hospital and we will have a modern laboratory as the citizens of the Republic of Moldova deserve it,” said Ala Nemerenco.
According to the Cabinet’s draft decision on the merger of the two medical institutions, “Toma Ciorbă” Hospital was created in 1896 and is based in buildings whose service life was considerably exceeded and these don’t meet contemporary requirements.
