Moldova travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Moldova, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Moldova: Chișinău, Orheiul Vechi, Tiraspol.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Tetanus up to date
- Rabies for a long or rural stay
Emergency number
112 from any phone; 903 for an ambulance
Care for visitors
Limited
Basic in the state system, which is under-resourced; Chișinău has private clinics used to foreigners and cheap. Anything serious is a drive to Iași or a flight out, and the insurance should cover that. In Transnistria assume nothing.
Tap water is not drunk; bottled everywhere. Stray dogs in the towns. The wine is the health hazard most visitors meet, and the cellars are cold — a jacket at Cricova in August.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Moldova
ChișinăuMoldovaThe least-visited capital in Europe, a city of parks and Soviet concrete, with the biggest wine cellars in the world under the hills outside it and a country that wants you to come
Orheiul VechiMoldovaA limestone gorge an hour from the capital with a monastery cut into the cliff, a village of whitewashed houses, and two thousand years of layers under the grass
TiraspolMoldovaThe capital of a country that does not exist: Lenin still standing, a currency nobody else takes, a Soviet main street kept as it was, and a day trip from Chișinău that is stranger than anywhere else in Europe