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National Center for Public Health

National Scientific-Practical Centre of Preventive Medicine (NSPCPM) is a publicinstitution, part of the State Sanitary-Epidemiological Service, under the aegis of theMinistry of Health of the Republic of Moldova, which works according to the legislation in

place, normative acts of the Government, Ministry of Health, other normative acts,international treaties Moldova has signed.

NSPCPM was established in 1995 based on reorganization of the Principal Sanitary-Epidemiological Directorate of the Ministry of Health, Republican Centre for Hygiene andEpidemiology, scientific units of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Institute of Researchein Preventive and Clinic Medicine, the Republican Centre on AIDS Prevention andControl and Republican Health Centre.

The institution has to fulfill the following tasksas it follows:

Participate in the implementation of the state policy in area of preventive medicineaccording to the legislation in place; Supervise and monitor the morbidity caused by infectious and parasite diseases,

intoxications, detect and estimate the factors which harm the environment; Organize and carry out scientific research, apply the accomplishments of the

national and world science and medical practice in area of preventive medicine; Authorize use of chemical substances, production means, new technologies for

production and processing of food products, cosmetics, biological items; Ensure sanitary-epidemiological welfare of the population in case of natural

calamities, extraordinary situations caused by chemical, biological or physicalpollution;

Develop legislative projects on sanitary-anti-epidemic measures, including for theimport of food products, raw agricultural materials, toxic chemical substances,industrial items which could influence negatively the human health;

Supervise the implementation of the national programmes, normative acts onsanitary-epidemiological provision of the population and in case the modality tocover the prejudice caused to population as a result of lack of respect towardssanitary legislation;

Organize health educational activities; promote the healthy life style, ensurehygienic training, organize capacity building of experts working in different areasof the national economy on personal and collective hygiene.

The institution has a national importance as carries out managerial and scientific-

practical activities in preventive medicine, concerning hygiene and evaluation of theinfluence of the evironemental factors on human health, social and demographicalproblems, immunology and epidemiology as well as development and adjustment of thelegislative-normative acts to international requirements.