A Romanian Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft is conducting a flight today, 15th May, in order to bring to Romania certain medical protection materiel from Turkey consisting in almost 400,000 FFP2 and FFP3-type protection masks.

These were procured procured by the Romanian state though the National Office for Centralized Acquisitions and the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, as part of the efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemics.

The distribution of the protection equipment was done with transportation means operated by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, and allocated, according to the requirements, to the medical personnel throughout the country and the operative crews who act in the field.

The Press Office