On December 24, 2020, the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine included the Paton industrial park (Kyiv region) in the register of industrial parks. The park, the initiator of which was the Pilot Paton Plant (Kyiv), the manufacturer of welding equipment, has an area of 17.0597 hectares.
According to the information on the ministry’s website, the planned life of the park, located on the territory of the Hlevakha village council of Fastiv district, is 30 years. It is planned to create up to 2,000 jobs.
The priority types of economic activity in the industrial park will be the creation of industrial production of modern electric welding equipment for various purposes, electric welding materials, packaging for various purposes, logistics and others.
The press service of the ministry said that today 45 parks have already been included in the register of industrial parks, including 23 management companies have been selected, and eight parks have participants (10 participants in total).
In addition, industrial parks, which are not included in the specified register, are being created and are functioning, including four parks created before the adoption of the law of Ukraine on industrial parks.
The Pilot Paton Plant was established in 1959 on the initiative of Borys Paton, as one of the elements of the Electric Welding Institute. The plant is the leader of the Ukrainian market of welding equipment and materials.
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In 2021, Ukraine is planning to perform lung transplants for the first time, as well as upper and lower extremities, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said during a press briefing in Kyiv on Monday.
“Our goal in 2021: a minimum of 250 transplants. In 2021, we plan not to send people abroad for kidney and liver transplants, our doctors are able to do these transplants. We also plan to perform lung, upper and lower extremities transplants this year,” he said.
The minister added that it is also planned to introduce a package of the Medical Guarantee Program to accompany patients after transplantation.
“We need to introduce a package of the Medical Guarantee Program with medical services for post-transplant support. We will also develop a mechanism for involving all types of transport, including civil aviation, aviation transport of the State Emergency Service, the National Police, the State Border Guard Service, in the transportation of anatomical materials and recipients,” Stepanov said.
“In addition, we plan to introduce tools for assessing the quality of the work of intensive care units and a mechanism for assessing the management of patients with brain damage in medical institutions. The issue of improving medical education, professional development of specialists is also acute. For this, we will introduce programs for sending our specialists for internship abroad,” he said.
Stepanov said that since January 1, the Unified Public Organ and Tissue Transplantation Information System, which connects the donor and the recipient, has been available in Ukraine.
