The European Union will offer €1.2 million for implementing the first twinning project in the health sector in Moldova, namely in the area of tissue and organ transplantation. Moldova’s partners in implementing the two-year project “Strengthening the Transplant Agency of the Republic of Moldova and support in legal approximation in the area of quality and safety of substances of human origin” this year will be France and Spain, which are global leaders in organ and tissue transplantation, IPN reports.
In a news conference, Minister of Health Andrei Usatyi said that grater security of organ transplantation is to be ensured and the national legal framework is to be improved. Another priority of the project is to highlight the importance of organ transplantation. In this connection, there will be worked out a mechanism similar to that of the EU, within which healthy persons give their consent to taking organs in case of sudden death, etc.
The minister underlined that the project is aimed not at increasing the number of transplant operations, but at improving their quality. Twenty kidney transplant surgeries and 10 liver transplant surgeries were performed in Moldova in 2014.
Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola said that since 2009, Moldova has received €7 million from the EU for the health sector. Within the twinning project, Moldovan specialists will attend training courses in France and Spain. “I’m confident that this project’s team will strengthen its forces so as to manage to modernize the transplantation area for the benefit of all the patients who are waiting for transplantation and of the potential donors. We aim to promote the legal donations and transplantation so that everyone knows their role and the donors are protected from trafficking in human organs,” he stated.
About 700 people in Moldova need organ transplantation.
