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45 tons of medical equipment have arrived in Romania from South Korea

Second transport with another 45 tons of medical equipment is to arrive in Otopeni International Airport on on Sunday.

 45 tons of medical equipment have arrived in Romania from South Korea
Photo: MApN.

Articol de Sergiu Şteţ, 27 Martie 2020, 21:15

45 tons of medical equipment, consisting in 100,000 protection coveralls, acquired by the Romanian state, have arrived on Thursday morning on the Henri Coandă - Otopeni Airport, from Seoul. Second transport with another 45 tons of medical equipment is to arrive in Otopeni International Airport on on Sunday.

According to a post on the Facebook page of the National Defense Ministry (MApN), the flight was undertaken with a C-17 Globe Master III, as part of Romania's flight hour share allotted for Romania, as a member state of the Strategic Airlift Capability.

One of the commanders of the crews that operated the aircraft during this mission is lieutenant commander George Crăciun, a pilot of the Romanian Air Force, detached to the Strategic Airlift Capability.

Ministry of National Defense had announced that it requested NATO's Strategic Airlift Capability, operating from the Papa Air Base in Hungary, to carry out an emergency air mission, for the transport of approximately 45 tons of medical equipment from Seoul to Bucharest.

According to MApN, the equipment - 100,000 protection coveralls, were acquired by the Romanian state through the National Office for Centralized Acquisitions, as part of efforts to combat the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania.

Romania signed, in 2008, as a founding member, the Memorandum of Understanding for Strategic Airlift Capability, along with nine other NATO countries - Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, the USA and Hungary, but also two members of the Partnership for Peace: Finland and Sweden

Source:RRA.Translated by Miruna Matei

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