Twelve of the 153 persons with COVID-19 who are in a serious state at the hospital were put on a ventilator. Nineteen persons were discharged from the hospital on April 10, the number of those who recovered rising to 75, Minister of Health Viorica Dumbrăveanu was quoted by IPN as saying after the April 11 meeting of the National Focal Point.
According to the minister, 120 of the 1,438 cases of infection with COVID-19 recorded in Moldova were imported, while the others are local transmission cases. As many as 6,839 tests to detect the virus were done by now. Most of the infections were logged in Chisinau, Ștefan Vodă and Soroca. A number of 91 cases were reported in the Transnistrian region.
Viorica Dumbrăveanu said the National Focal Point decided that both the hospital in Fălești and the hospital in Glodeni will continue dealing only with patients with COVID-19. They will not provide other kinds of medical assistance and the persons who need other types of assistance will be referred to other hospitals. The Soroca District Hospital remains functional.
Nicolae Furtună, director of the National Public Health Agency, said that the figure of 29 healthcare workers who got infected at the workplace in March derived from the epidemiological questionnaires conducted to assess the risks. A working group consisting of specialists of the Agency and directors of public health facilities compiled this list of 29 persons after establishing the cause-effect connection. (These persons will get a lump sum of 16,000 lei).
According to Nicolae Furtună, the medical personnel in Bălceana contracted the virus while providing medical assistance to the infected person without knowing that this was infected, while the staff at the Carahasani Health Center caught the virus in the community. The same happened at the Psychiatry Hospital. “None of these persons is on the March list of those who became infected at the workplace,” he stated.
