The Star of Hope Romania Foundation, in partnership with Child, Community Family of the Republic of Moldova, is launching a transfrontier project to ensure access to health services for each child through home visits, IPN reports.
In the event to launch the project, CCF/HHC Moldova president Liliana Rotaru said studies clearly show the benefits of early intervention, of early detection of social and medical risks. The launched project aims to make a connection between the assistance of children of an early age and pregnant women in the last stage, families where children are to be born.
Contacted by IPN for a comment, Liliana Rotaru said that 120 trained medical assistants next January will start to pay home visits in four pilots regions in the Republic of Moldova: Bălţi municipality and Glodeni, Drochia, and Donduşeni districts. The actions will be taken simultaneously with those in Romania. The assistants will work with about 1,700 beneficiaries. The focus group includes children younger than three and pregnant women in the last stage. During six-seven months, each beneficiary will enjoy an average number of three visits.
“We will keenly learn from the Romanian colleagues what community-based rehabilitation is so as to make the model we have in the Republic of Moldova more interesting and flexible, more open to families and children,” stated Liliana Rotaru.
Aurora Vatamaniuc, executive president of Star of Hope Romania, said that emphasis within this project will be placed on the prevention of disability and abandonment. More than 1,500 children will benefit from an improved quality of life and state of health.
The universal home visiting model offers a number of home visits to all the families as a supplement to the medial services provided by the family doctor and pediatricians. The goal of this program model is to ensure support for all the families and to offer them the most opportune resources for their children as regards general care, health, nutrition so as to ensure optimal growth and development and to prevent the consequences of unfavorable social circumstances.
“This is an important project as the medical assistance for the mother and child represents a priority for the Ministry, for the Government of the Republic of Moldova,” said Tatiana Zatyk, division head at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection. The functionary noted that all the policy documents related to childcare and supervision of pregnant women were adjusted to the WHO recommendations. “In the Republic of Moldova, we worked out and approved child and mother supervision standards. Special attention in the process was devoted to home visits, social aspects of the growth conditions of the child.”
