United Nations Population Fund continues to support hospitals and new mothers in Moldova. This week, UNFPA distributed mother kits in several hospitals of the country, with the highest statistical number of births. Each set contains a special bag, a thermos bottle for keeping warm liquids, a blanket and a baby carrier wrap. These bags are meant to help refugee mothers, as well as mothers from Moldova, to take care of the child while they are traveling.

This week, UNFPA Moldova team is distributing maternity bags to perinatal centers in Bălți, Edineț, Orhei, Soroca, Florești, Ceadîr Lunga, Comrat, Căuşeni, Cahul, at the „Gheorghe Paladi” Municipal Hospital and at the Mother and Child Institute (MCI).

At MCI, a maternity bag also reached Liuba Duplavă. The woman was impressed by UNFPA's gesture and says that it is the first time she has received such a support: „This bag is very useful for any travel you have with the children, and there are many travels with children. I'm glad, my backpack was already old, the color wasn't the same anymore, and the baby wrap will help me as I won’t have to take the stroller with me, while traveling by public transportation”.

She had only words of praise for the doctors of the Mother and Child Institute: „I had all four births here, at the maternity hospital. The doctors are very good. I feel good, I hope all women feel the same”.

The maternity bags are designed for vulnerable women from the Republic of Moldova, but also for refugees, who are in transit or about to leave. This set is undeniably the most useful support for them, says Svetlana Dobrea, head midwife of the Perinatal Center of the Mother and Child Institute: „It is a very useful set, especially for refugee mothers, as they are temporary with us. Some of them do not even have strollers or other things in the composition of this mother kit, therefore it is very useful for them”.

The donation includes 1,800 kits for mothers and newborns. As part of the response to the humanitarian crisis, generated by the war in Ukraine, UNFPA provides extensive support to the reproductive health system, by equipping medical institutions with the latest medical equipment. As a result, the local population and refugees will have access to quality medical services.