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…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili visited the first Drug Quality Control Laboratory in Georgia and said the Government had invested GEL 11 million (about $4 million) into the “ultra-modern” laboratory, which was essential for the Georgian people and the country. Garibashvili said that by the Government’s decision only Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)-standard drugs were being…
Restoring the medical infrastructure is one of the key aspects of ensuring the availability of healthcare. “However, we must not only rebuild what has been destroyed,” Minister of Health Viktor Liashko has said during a meeting with the heads of healthcare departments of the frontline regional military administrations. “According to our latest data, as of…
The National Health Insurance Company announced that it had allocated over 879 thousand lei (about 44 thousand euros) from the prevention measures fund for the procurement of the first batch of 7,000 rabies vaccine doses for this year. Over 23 thousand lei were directed towards the purchase of 37 rabies immunoglobulin doses. They were shipped…
The government of the Republic of Korea could offer a non-refundable financial support of $500 thousand to the medical system in our country. Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of Moldova, based in Kyiv, Kim Hyung-Tae made the statement at a meeting with Minister of Health Ala Nemerenco. According to the Ministry…