Meeting with Mr. Pokanevych, WHO Representative

Today, FIA members met on-line 𝐌𝐫. Igor Pokanevych, World Health Organization in Moldova, in order to approach #COVID19 pandemic crisis management and to share their vision on further actions needed in this regard. The meeting was also attended by Economic Council to the Prime-minister experts (Consiliul Economic pe lângă Prim-ministrul RM).

FIA executive director, Mrs. Ana Groza, briefly presented 𝐅𝐈𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, such as:
– Prevention of COVID infection by identifying people in the risk group, as these people develop particularly severe forms;
– Carrying out the detailed epidemiological analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Moldova, in order to highlight the places and the most common way of infection;
– Mass testing of the population, at the expense of compulsory health insurance, especially of the medical employees and other strategic area;
– Strengthening the epidemiological surveillance capacities of infected persons, as well as contacts, by creation of the interactive electronic register of positive persons and contacts;
– Providing equipment for the protection of socially vulnerable groups and assisting infected persons, by delivery of social food packages to the home of quarantined, infected, asymptomatic or mildly ill persons, but also to persons older than 63 years (based on the single electronic register); home delivery of medicines, masks, disinfectants; the provision of special waste collection boxes, separate from household waste;
– Ensuring continuity of care for non-covid patients, by continuation of monitoring the recovery; launching research programs, etc.