​BALTI MAYOR CALLS CITIZENS TO BUY FOODSTUFFS FOR PENSIONERS

Renato Usatii, the Mayor of the country’s second-largest city of Balti, has called on citizens of Moldova to buy foodstuffs and leave them in shops on special counters, to which pensioners could come and take the free food.

Speaking on the Balti Television last weekend, Usatii said he would shortly urge food traders to organize guards, who would be on duty at the entry to supermarkets.

“Acts of marauding have begun in Moldova. The police are certainly doing their job – catching marauders, but the Government prohibits placing them into custody: during quarantine, such a measure of restraint is envisaged only for grave crimes. But stealing from shop shelves is not from the category of such crimes”, said the Mayor.

“Practically each of us can afford buying bread, water, potatoes, some other food products and to leave this ration in a packet on a specially assigned shop shelf. I am recommending shop owners to arrange special sections or platforms for such charitable help for the needy”, said Renato Usatii.

This past weekend, the Balti Mayor bought for his own money 4 thousand medical masks – 3 thousand for the Balti Emergency Medicine Hospital and 1 thousand for the Balti Clinical Hospital that accepts coronavirus patients from the whole northern Moldova.

Earlier this month, Renato Usatii purchased for his own money 7 thousand masks, which he gave to local medical workers and to the employees of the Balti Primaria [city hall].