Tiraspol, December 11. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The State Media Service held a presentation and special cancellation of a new postal issue “Heroes of Our Time”, dedicated to the first volunteer doctors, fighting against COVID-19.
“Today, we talk much about doctors, nurses, everyone who works in the hospitals, about people who help in the fight against this terrible disease. But I would like to draw attention to the doctors, who were the first. People, who risk their lives, give themselves and their time, deserve better. Thus, we want to say “thank you,” the head of the State Media Service Lidia Kolodka noted.
Photos of 8 doctors depicted on stamps. Most of them are doctors of the Slobodzeya hospital, as well as doctors from Bendery, Rybnitsa and Tiraspol: the chief pulmonologist of the PMR Nikolay Bezhenar, infectious disease physicians Maria Egorova and Yulian Malkosyan, therapist Alyona Lapina, pulmonologist Marina Kilar, intensivist Sergei Lopatin, traumatologist Vitaly Tsurkan and the head of Slobodzeya coronavirus hospital Igor Tostanovsky.
“All of them are volunteer doctors. Despite the fact, that at first we didn’t know against what we were fighting, these people agreed to work in the infectious diseases hospital and have still working there,” the PMR Health Minister Christina Albul noted.
Among the volunteers depicted on the stamps is Alena Lapina, deputy chief physician for the medical department of the Slobodzeya infectious diseases hospital. She noted, that none of the doctors who worked in the Slobodzeya hospital dismissed. Everyone continued to treat people even despite the risk to get sick with coronavirus.
“It wasn’t dreadfully. It was unknown what we were dealing with, how serious it was. It always seemed, that it would not reach us. We are far from Europe and China. But it turned out, that the distance for such infection doesn’t matter,” Alena Lapina told.
The series was issued in an edition of 700 miniature sheet, each of which contains 8 stamps. The price of one sheet is 49.2 rubles. All earnings will be sent to the fund to fight COVID-19.
According to Vsevolod Lavrentyev, the director of the SUE Stamp of Pridnestrovie, several more postal issues will be released by the end of the year. December 24 will mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. A postage stamp will be dedicated to this anniversary date.
A special cancellation of four postage issues will be held in Bendery in the Museum of Local History tomorrow. All of them are dedicated to this year’s anniversaries. In September the 250th anniversary of the capture of the Bendery fortress by the Russian troops was marked. September 30 (18th, old style) turned the 125th anniversary since birth of the outstanding USSR commander Marshall Alexander Vasilevsky, and 795 years ago a rite of passage into the warriors of Alexander Nevsky took place.
The SUE Stamp of Pridnestrovie will continue the space series output. A special cancellation of the stamp dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Belka and Strelka flight will be held in Bendery tomorrow.
