Treatment of 244 diagnosed HIV / AIDS patients in the county is also provided for early 2019 as a result of additional allocations resulting from the budget rectification.

Dr. Liliana Grădinariu, Executive Director of Suceava Department of Public Health, said in a statement on Monday that the Ministry of Health had initially allocated to Suceava County an amount of 4.807 million lei for the implementation of the National Program. prevention and control. / AIDS for the treatment of HIV-infected and diagnosed patients. On Friday, the amount was supplemented by the budget rectification, with 1,100,000 lei of commitment appropriations, including 500,000 lei of budget appropriations.

Grădinariu said that during the year 2018, there was no syncope in the treatment of patients from Suceava County and that this additional allowance ensured the continuity of their treatment also for the beginning of the next calendar year.

"Correct adherence to antiretroviral therapy by HIV-infected patients and diagnosed leads, over time, to reducing the amount of virus present in the body at undetectable levels," said the doctor's doctor. Suceava.

DSP executive director Suceava told NewsBucovina that 244 patients with HIV / AIDS were being treated in November.

From early 2018 to the end of October, 14 new cases of illness were diagnosed and one death from this disease was also recorded, said Dr. Liliana Grădinariu.

(L.B.)