The team of the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development is working comprehensively to provide logistics for medical evacuation: from urgent repairs of frontline roads and the construction of crossings to the creation of special medical evacuation trains. The medical trolleys were built in a matter of days in early March. Over the past…
About 2,500 patients with rare diseases are registered in Moldova, of whom more than a half are children. The state annually allocates over 60 million lei for their treatment. The subject was discussed at a national conference, organized by the Health Ministry, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy (USMF), Pediatry Society of Moldova,…
A bill restoring prescription-free access to the so-called morning-after pill, a form of emergency contraception, has been passed by the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament. Under the proposed regulations, the contraceptive will be available over the counter to those aged at least 15 (Poland’s age of sexual consent) for the first time since…
The negotiations held by the National Health Insurances Company (CNAM) on cutting maximal prices for the compensated medicines and medical devices in 2023 generated savings in the mandatory health insurances accounts in an amount of 34 million lei, of which 33 million lei for compensated medicines. According to CNAM, the discussions held with the producers…
The Polish government on January 24 approved a bill to make emergency contraceptive pills more accessible, reversing a restriction introduced by the previous nationalist government in 2017 and relaxing a near-total ban on abortion, beginning to fulfill promises made by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, reported Reuters. The 2017 legislation, passed by the Law and Justice…
The government of Japan has donated to Moldova a consignment of medicines worth $330,533.69 for the treatment of tuberculosis. Attending the event of official delivery of the medicines were a state secretary of the Health Ministry, Angela Paraschiv, Ambassador of Japan to Moldova Yamada Yoichiro, the head of the Department Support for Countries and Communities…
The production and sale of medicines with content of anabolic and androgenic steroids will be banned in Moldova. The members of the parliamentary commission for social protection, health and family have approved a draft law to this effect. The document will prohibit the import, fabrication, sale, prescription and release of medicines with content of anabolic…