Swiss Government provides maternity hospitals with equipment

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) provided under the Moldovan-Swiss Project “Modernization of perinathological system in Moldova” medical modern equipment to the maternity hospital in Criuleni raion, Info-Prim Neo reports. The project envisages endowing 26 raion maternity hospitals and 4 municipal hospitals with medical modern equipment. The total value of the donated equipment is about USD 2 mln. According to a presidential press release, the head of state, who attended the event, spoke about the successful implementation of the National Project on Technical Endowment of the Public Medico-Sanitary Institutions in Moldova designed to create optimal activity conditions to medical staff. SDC Director Thomas Kugler affirmed that one of main priorities, highlighted by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Moldova, is cooperation in the health care field, while the possibility to contribute to improving the conditions of providing care to young mothers and newborns is a delight for the organisation he represents in Moldova. The project “Modernization of perinathological system in Moldova” is implemented by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, a structure of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Its mandate is based on the Federal Law regarding the cooperation with the countries in the Eastern Europe for development and humanitarian aid. A permanent bureau of the Swiss Government has been operating in Chisinau since 2000. During the first years of cooperation, SDC offered Moldova humanitarian assistance for social institutions and poor strata of the people (elderly persons, disabled persons etc.). As from 2005, the SDC is providing technical and humanitarian assistance. At present, the Swiss Government has approved and launched the Strategy for Cooperation with Moldova for 2006-2008. The main objective of the Strategy is to support Moldova’s period of transition to the market economy.