About 80 officers of the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS) took part in a blood donation campaign. These included employees who got cured of COVID-19. The donation event was devoted to the Independence Day of the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.

According to the Security and Intelligence Service, by the given initiative the SIS aimed to contribute to supplementing the national blood reserves. The officers donated blood in order to help patients in a serious state and to fulfill their civic duty.

Contacted by IPN for a comment, National Blood Transfusion Center head Svetlana Cebootari said the next blood and plasma donation campaign was scheduled for September 3. This will involve employees of the Ministry of Defense and the subordinate institutions. They will donate blood on the occasion of the National Army Day.

Svetlana Cebotari noted the Center has supplies of blood, including convalescent plasma, but besides the patients with COVID-19, whose number is rising, there are also planned surgeries, road accidents and other emergencies in the medical system. “Currently, we are coping, but we should maintain and renew the supplies so that we have blood in any situation, on any day and at any hour for all those who need it,” she stated.

The National Blood Transfusion Center will serve donors also on August 28 and 29, between 8am and 3pm. All those who want to donate blood voluntarily can go to the local centers in Chisinau, Bălți and Cahul.