In May of this year, the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy commissioned a new medical building. In May this year, the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy put into operation a new medical building built within the framework of the state investment project “Creation of a modern clinical base for surgical treatment of eye pathology”.
“Today, both patients and doctors have fully settled into the new building and have been able to appreciate its benefits,” the clinic told Interfax-Ukraine.
The new six-story building has 230 beds. In accordance with the new requirements for clinical facilities, each of the spacious wards has a bathroom, and all the requirements for ensuring the stay of patients with disabilities have been met. The building is equipped with the latest diagnostic, medical, laboratory, anesthesiology and operating equipment.
Currently, the new building houses four out of nine clinical departments, as well as two reception departments – separately for children and adults. In addition, the new building houses a complex of clinical laboratories, physiotherapy and ultrasound departments, and an operating room with 12 operating rooms.
“The commissioning of the new medical building will allow us to provide the most modern equipment and facilities for operating rooms, given the high surgical activity (more than 15,000 operations per year), and to achieve high standards of patient care in the clinical facility,” the institute emphasized.
Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of NAMSU was founded in 1936. It is a leading scientific and medical institution and a national center for scientific research in the field of ophthalmology. The Institute has four national centers covering the most common ophthalmic pathologies: Ukrainian Ophthalmic Trauma Center, Center for Pediatric Ophthalmopathology, Center for Ophthalmic Oncology, and Eye Burn Center.
The Institute’s clinic is an ophthalmology center where all types of diagnostics and treatment of eye diseases are performed using innovative technologies.
Initial registrations of used passenger cars imported to Ukraine from abroad in October 2023 increased by 41% compared to October 2022 – to 21.3 thousand units, which is 1% more than in September this year, the Ukravtoprom association reported on its Telegram channel on Monday.
According to the association, the largest share in the segment of imported used cars in October consistently belonged to gasoline cars – 44% (in September, too), followed by diesel cars – 31% (unchanged), electric cars – 17% (16%), cars with LPG – 5% (unchanged) and hybrids – 3% (4%).
Volkswagen Golf remains the leader in registrations (1544 units), and the top five remained unchanged: Renault Megane (1200 units), Skoda Octavia (960 units), Volkswagen Passat (785 units) and Nissan Leaf (573 units).
The TOP-10 of this market in October also included Volkswagen Tiguan (451 units), Tesla Model 3 (442 units), AUDI A4 (416 units), Ford Focus (411 units) and Nissan Qashqai (404 units).
The average age of used cars that switched to Ukrainian license plates in October is 9.5 years.
Overall, in January-October this year, 169.3 thousand used cars imported from abroad were registered for the first time in Ukraine, which is 3.4 times more than the number of new cars sold in the same period.
As reported, in 2022, Ukrainians registered 388.5 thousand imported used passenger cars, which is almost a quarter less than a year earlier, but more than 10 times more than the market for new passenger cars.
On Monday, November 6, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will pay an official visit to South Africa, which will be the first visit of the Ukrainian foreign minister to the country since 1998.
According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kuleba will hold talks in Pretoria with the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Naledi Pandor, the key topics of which will be the implementation of the Ukrainian peace formula, intensification of efforts to return Ukrainian children illegally taken from the temporarily occupied territories to Russia, ensuring food security in Africa, increasing bilateral trade, and intensifying cooperation between Ukraine and South Africa in international organizations.
The program of the visit includes a lecture by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister to students and professors of the University of Pretoria, as well as the opening of the virtual reality exhibition “Living the War” about the consequences of Russian aggression against Ukraine at the Javett Center for the Arts at the University.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that the visit to South Africa will be Kuleba’s fourth trip to Africa. The first one took place in October 2022 (Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Kenya), the second in May 2023 (Morocco, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mozambique and Nigeria), and the third in July 2023 (Equatorial Guinea and Liberia).
Oil prices are rising on Monday after a sharp decline last week.
The cost of January futures for Brent on the London ICE Futures exchange as of 7:10 a.m. on Monday amounted to $85.3 per barrel, which is $0.41 (0.48%) higher than at the close of the previous session. On Friday, the price of these contracts fell by $1.96 (2.3%) to $84.89 per barrel.
December futures for WTI in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) rose by $0.5 (0.62%) to $81.01 per barrel by this time. As a result of the previous trading, the value of these contracts fell by $1.95 (2.4%) to $80.51 per barrel.
Last week, Brent lost 4.8%, WTI – 5.9%, according to Dow Jones.
Concerns about the escalating conflict in the Middle East have eased somewhat, and traders’ attention has shifted to the prospects for oil supply and demand on the global market, Market Watch notes.
On Sunday, the Saudi state agency reported, citing an official source in the Ministry of Energy, that the country would not change the volume of voluntary oil production cuts, and would keep it at 1 million bpd until the end of 2023. At the same time, the source noted that in December, Saudi Arabia will review the parameters of the restrictions in order to make a decision either to deepen the reduction or increase production.
About $435 million is needed to help civilians across Ukraine by March 2024, according to the website of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“The United Nations and partners are calling for about $435 million to be allocated for winter assistance. US dollars to provide winter assistance to more than 1.7 million people across Ukraine by March 2024,” the statement emphasizes.
It is noted that this year alone, the UN and partners have delivered 14 convoys to the frontline areas of Zaporizhzhia region, providing the necessary assistance to more than 30 thousand people living near the southern front. Since the beginning of the year, 96 humanitarian convoys have been delivered to the frontline areas.
In particular, as reported on November 3, an interagency humanitarian convoy delivered vital supplies for 1,600 people who remain in the frontline town of Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The aid included medicines, household items, hygiene kits, blankets, mattresses, solar lamps and sleeping bags.
“Corum Druzhkovka Machine-Building Plant (Corum DrMZ), a part of Corum Group (DTEK Energy), whose production site is located in Dnipro after the relocation, has produced 242 units of underground transport this year, fulfilling all orders for the supply of underground transport, having manufactured 242 units.
“After the plant was relocated, we had to re-establish production. Production of underground transport was no exception. However, Corum DrMZ machine builders have managed to cope and have even already fulfilled all orders for the production of trolleys,” the company’s Facebook page says.
In particular, 228 freight trolleys were produced, including 173 units of the most popular VG3.3-900, which can move up to 6 tons of coal; as well as 22 VDK2.5K trolleys designed for 4.5 tons of coal and capable of unloading anywhere without a special unloading mechanism (used in mine construction and during the reconstruction of coal enterprises).
In addition, in the first ten months of 2023, the plant shipped 33 transport trolleys to mines, which are used in mine construction.
“The mines are also updating their passenger car fleet. This year, machine builders have produced 13 trolleys for transporting miners through horizontal mine workings and one for transporting passengers through inclined mine workings with inclination angles of 6 to 30°,” the statement said.
All underground mine transport was made to order for DTEK Energy’s mines.
As reported, the plant produced the first freight cars after the relocation in May this year, having made changes to the design and manufacturing technology of parts and the car in general while maintaining quality.
Corum Group is a leading manufacturer of mining equipment in Ukraine and is part of DTEK Energy, the operating company responsible for coal mining and coal-fired power generation within Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK holding.
“Corum DrMZ increased its loss by 2.6 times in 2022 compared to 2021, to UAH 458.3 million, while revenue fell by 2.3 times to UAH 559 million.
