The Municipal Children’s Hospital of Infectious Diseases renovated and reequipped a laboratory that has been nonfunctional for 15 years with a grant of over US$85,000 provided by the Government of Japan. Japan’s Ambassador to Moldova Toichi Sakata and Minister of Health Andrei Usatyi Friday paid a fact-finding visit to the hospital to see the equipment bought with the offered financial assistance, Info-Prim Neo reports. The hospital’s director Ludmila Barca said that until now the institution took the samples to other labs. Their laboratory has been now outfitted with ultrasound diagnosis equipment, blood analysis and biochemical apparatus, and frigorific equipment. Ambassador Toichi Sakata said that the projects of the kind are successfully implemented in Moldva and form part of the program of grants for humanitarian security projects “Kusanone”. This financial assistance is a proof of the efforts made by Japan in human security and is a major direction of its foreign policy on international cooperation. Thus, in April 2011- March 2012, the Government of Japan offered Moldova over US$351,000 in financial assistance for humanitarian security projects. Minister Andrei Usatyim said that this is the 11th “Kusanone” project implemented in Moldova at different levels. A project to install a photovoltaic system is now carried out at the Oncology Institute, with support from the Government of Japan. It will enable the institution to reduce the electric power costs by about 20%. The agreement on the implementation of the program of grants for humanitarian security projects “Kusanone” was signed by the Governments of Japan and Moldova in January 2006.