Timofei Moșneaga

Timofei Moșneaga (pronounced [timoˈfej moʃˈne̯aɡa]; 6 March 1932 – 1 June 2014) was a Soviet and Moldovan physician and politician who served as the Minister of Health of Moldova from 1994 to 1997.

Shortly after finishing his studies, he defended the thesis in medical sciences and afterwards was conferred the academic rank of associate professor.

Shortly, specialized departments for patients with somatic and surgical diseases endowed with up-to-date medical technologies, including equipment for the modern method of lithotripsy of kidney stones, opened at the RCH.

Moșneaga made a great contribution to the creation of proper conditions for teaching, scientific and clinical activities carried out at 15 chairs of the Chișinău Institute of Medicine.

In 1980 Moldovan filmmaker Anatol Codru produced a biopic about Timofei Moșneaga titled My Life's Dream (Romanian: Visul vieții mele).

For the design and construction of the new building of the Republican Clinical Hospital, Moșneaga was awarded the title of Laureate of the State Prize of the Moldavian SSR in literature, arts and architecture (1982).

[3] He, alongside Eugen Doga, were the only members of the Moldavian faction that penned an open letter to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, condemning the separatist movement brewing in Transnistria at the time.

[6] On 6 October 2017, in honour of the RCH's 200th anniversary, a bas-relief commemorating Timofei Moșneaga was installed at the hospital's main entrance.

Bust on the Alley of Brilliant Scientists and Doctors in Chișinău
Bas-relief at the RCH's main entrance