Moldova allowed medicines to reach Transnistria, but did not lift the blockade
Moldovan customs allowed two trucks with medicines for Transnistria two months after their arrival. A cargo of medicines from the Transnistrian Keyser LLC was held at the border from late March to early April.
This was reported by the Novosti Pridnestrovya news agency, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Two months passed from the moment when the Moldovan side, represented first by Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Serebryan, then by its other representatives, promised to resolve this issue, and until the moment when we were actually able to deliver the cargo. It is too long. The process was bureaucratized on purpose,” said Dmitry Palamarchuk, head of the main foreign policy department of the PMR Foreign Ministry.
The seized trucks contained medicines from Russia and the Baltic states. Their omission does not mean a comprehensive solution to the issue of importing medicines to Transnistria. Tiraspol and Chisinau have not yet agreed on the nomenclature of drugs that will be allowed to be imported into the PMR.
“At the technical level, the mechanism has, in principle, been discussed. But all this is, as it were, in the minds of experts and has not yet been put on paper. While Moldovan representatives are there solving internal organizational issues, our people and patients are suffering,” said Palamarchuk
Because of this, Transnistrian pharmaceutical companies are now in standby mode. They do not make purchases in traditional markets: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, India, fearing that they simply will not be able to deliver the goods. As a result, a shortage in the pharmaceutical market begins to develop in Transnistria
During the pandemic, Chisinau has repeatedly delayed medical equipment, reagents for testing for COVID-19, and components for ventilators for Transnistria.
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