{"id":340281,"date":"2021-11-02T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=340281"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T12:39:39","slug":"epidemiologist-vasile-turcan-was-decorated-by-the-bishop-of-balti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/epidemiologist-vasile-turcan-was-decorated-by-the-bishop-of-balti\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiologist Vasile \u0162urcan was decorated by the Bishop of B\u0103l\u0163i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Eminence Antonie offered epidemiologist Vasile \u0162urcan the highest distinction of the Diocese of B\u0103l\u0163i for laypersons: &#8220;The Cross of B\u0103l\u0163i&#8221;. It was granted for &#8220;his contribution to the development of medical science&#8221; and for &#8220;his qualities as a man, a patriot and a Christian&#8221;, the eparchy officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/episcopia.balti\/posts\/4738205639525828\">announced<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The awarding ceremony was organized on the occasion of a visit made by the Bishop of B\u0103l\u0163i to the local psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His Eminence thanked the medical staff for their sacrifice and effort to save human lives in the context of the actual pandemic. The hierarch assured the staff they are in the prayers of the B\u0103l\u0163i Diocese&#8217;s clerics.<\/p>\n<p>Vasile \u0162urcan is a well-known epidemiologist, a doctor in medicine and author of over 150 scientific publications. He has registered 147 inventions in epidemiology, for which he was distinguished with golden medals of the 1st and 2nd degree. He was awarded the honorary title of &#8220;The best ratio maker of the year in the Republic of Moldova&#8221; (for years 2014 &#8211; 2017).<\/p>\n<p>He has also received the High Appreciation Certificate from the World Health Organization. In 1996 he was awarded the distinction of \u201eEmeritus Person of the Republic of Moldova\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Diocese of B\u0103l\u0163i<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Eminence Antonie offered epidemiologist Vasile \u0162urcan the highest distinction of the Diocese of B\u0103l\u0163i for laypersons: &#8220;The Cross of B\u0103l\u0163i&#8221;. It was granted for &#8220;his contribution to the development of medical science&#8221; and for &#8220;his qualities as a man, a patriot and a Christian&#8221;, the eparchy officials announced.\u00a0 The awarding ceremony was organized on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":339163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25011,25010,26712,26713,10386,23861,2199],"class_list":["post-340281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-bishop-antonie","tag-diocese-of-balti","tag-distinction","tag-medical-staff","tag-orthodox-news","tag-pandemic","tag-republic-of-moldova"],"better_featured_image":{"id":339163,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":726,"height":543,"file":"2021\/10\/245473107_4738205029525889_1148430730867983803_n.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"245473107_4738205029525889_1148430730867983803_n-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245473107_4738205029525889_1148430730867983803_n-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":340281,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/245473107_4738205029525889_1148430730867983803_n.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340281\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=340281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340281\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339163\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=340281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=340281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=340281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}