CSD LAB medical laboratory is opening partner laboratory offices in the front-line regions of Ukraine.
The company told Interfax-Ukraine news agency that, in particular, CSD LAB is opening laboratories on their basis together with medical centers.
“We opened partner laboratory offices in the frontline regions of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka (Donetsk region),” the company specified.
CSD LAB reported that the company opened more than 15 lab offices together with partners during the war, including three in Ternopil, offices in Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Drohobych, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Chernivtsi, Chernomorsk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Konstantinivka.
Currently there are over 70 laboratory offices and biomaterial collection points in the network all over Ukraine.
CSD LAB – one of the leading laboratories in Ukraine, provides more than 1500 tests – from general blood analysis to determination of genetic disorders in the tumor by NGS method. For 12 years CSD LAB has been one of the largest pathomorphological laboratories in Eastern Europe.
CSD LAB unites six laboratories: pathomorphology, cytomorphology, oncohematology, microbiology, clinical diagnostic laboratory and molecular genetics center. Every year it conducts more than 1.5 million tests.
Production facilities and modern high-tech equipment are located in Kiev and Lviv on a total area of more than 5 thousand square meters, as well as in Moldova and Georgia.
Romanian authorities are introducing new rules for housing and food subsidies for Ukrainian refugees starting from May: now the money will be received only by those who have found a job, the EFE news agency reported.
In addition, those citizens of Ukraine whose children go to school in Romania will be able to count on the subsidies.
Under the new rules, the state will no longer pay housing costs to landlords who house refugees, and tenants will receive subsidies directly. Refugee camps will receive subsidies from the state as before. Details of these rules will be made public at a later date, the agency notes.
EFE explains that Bucharest has taken such measures against the background of a significant labor shortage in Romania. More than 3.8 million Ukrainians arrived in the country since February 2022, but the vast majority went to other European countries. According to Romanian authorities, about 110,000 Ukrainian refugees currently remain in the country, but less than 10 percent of them have a work contract.
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The Ministry of Digital Transformation (Ministry of Digital Transformation) will launch an updated statistics portal created as part of the global digital transformation of the State Statistics Service (Gosstat) by mid-year instead of the current website, Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology Development – Digital Transformation Minister Mikhail Fedorov said in Telegram on Wednesday.
“At the heart of the transformation is an IT platform. It collects and processes data in real time, presenting it in the form of interactive dashboards so that scientists, journalists and businessmen can quickly find the necessary information,” Fedorov wrote.
According to the head of the Ministry of Digital, now all data are collected manually from different sources and in different formats. They are long processed in outdated systems and then distributed in the form of statistical files through Gosstat.
“Therefore, we need to fundamentally change this approach,” Fedorov stressed.
He specified that the Ministry plans to present an updated statistics portal in the summer.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation has been conducting transformations in the Gosstat since 2021 as part of the Swiss-Ukrainian program EGAP, implemented by the Eastern Europe Foundation.
The audit of business processes and IT infrastructure of Gosstat was carried out in cooperation with EPAM IT company. It also participated in developing a strategy of digital transformation, it said.
According to Forbres.UA, the total cost of the project is about 55 million UAH, which were allocated within the program EGAP. The publication also reported that after the implementation of changes, the staff of the State Statistics Service will be reduced by about 30%. In 2022, the staff of the state agency was reduced from 6,000 to 4,600 employees, including by eliminating duplicate functions in the regional offices.
EPAM Systems Inc. was founded in 1993 and develops custom software for various sectors of the economy. The company has offices in 25 countries and provides services to customers in more than 40 countries.
The EVA chain of perfumery and cosmetics stores has opened 11 new stores since the beginning of 2023 and plans to launch at least 50 new outlets mainly in the central and western regions of Ukraine this year.
“We have already opened 11 new EVA stores this year, and we plan to open at least 50 in total. Mostly in the central and western regions. We are also considering new locations in the de-occupied territories. As for the development formats, we are focusing on stores with a new design called “Women’s Energy,” the chain’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
Investments in the opening of a new store amount to UAH 2-4 million depending on the format, while investments in the restoration of an outlet depend on the degree of damage, the chain said.
The company also plans to reopen previously closed stores where the situation allows. For example, five stores have already reopened in Kherson, one in Pokrovsk, Dobropillya, Myrnohrad, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, and a previously closed store is planned to open in Rodynske, Donetsk region.
According to the chain, last year the company opened 26 new stores and restored 50 more after damage.
The company also plans to open a new warehouse at its distribution center in Dnipro this year. Currently, the chain’s warehouses are located in Lviv and Brovary. In addition, work is underway on a large warehouse project in Odesa, EVA noted.
As reported, the EVA network’s turnover in 2022 decreased by 7% year-on-year to UAH 15.7 billion.
RUSH LLC, which manages the EVA chain, was founded in 2002. It has more than 50 own brands, which are represented by household goods, perfumes, cosmetics, jewelry, personal care products, accessories, underwear and children’s products.
As of February 23, 2022, there were 1119 EVA stores in Ukraine. In April 2023, the chain had 996 operating stores.
According to Opendatabot, the owner of RUSH LLC is Korsolyushyn LLC (100%), and the company’s ultimate beneficiaries are Ukrainian businessmen Ruslan Shostak and Valeriy Kiptyk.
According to RUSH’s financial results, its net profit in 2022 increased by 16.7% to UAH 973.8 million, while the value of its assets decreased by 2.5% to UAH 10.3 billion.
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