The Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center plans to launch the Apteka project for automated dilution of drugs for chemotherapy in 2022, acting director of the center Oleksandr Kliusov has said.
“This is a project of the Department of Health of Kyiv City State Administration. The essence of the project is to automate the process of dilution of drugs for chemotherapy. I hope that the project will start working within the next few months,” he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Kliusov said that equipment has already been delivered to the clinic for the implementation of the project: three robotic cytoboxes, in which the robot dispenses ready-made forms of chemotherapy drugs.
Investments in the project amounted to about UAH 50 million.
Ukraine sold industrial products (goods, services) for UAH 3.584 trillion in 2021, which is 44.5% more than in 2020 (UAH 2.481 trillion), including for UAH 1.019 trillion outside the country, the State Statistics Service said on Friday.
According to the authority, in December 2021 year-over-year, the turnover of the sold products of mining and processing industry rose by 31.8%. Sales of mining industry products in December 2021 compared to the same month last year grew by 18.1%, processing industry – by 34.8%.
Compared to the previous month (December to November 2021), sales in the mining industry rose by 5%, in the processing industry – by 10.7%.
The processing industry (61.3%) had the largest share of the total volume of sales of industrial products in 2021, the share of the supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning was 21.5%, the mining industry and quarrying 16.1%, metallurgical production 16.0%.
As reported, in 2020, Ukraine sold industrial products (goods, services) for UAH 2.481 trillion.
The Ministry of Finance has begun work on the preparation of a draft Budget Declaration for 2023-2025, which the Cabinet of Ministers must approve no later than June 1.
“First Deputy Finance Minister Denys Uliutin held an online meeting with representatives of the ministry on the preparation of the draft Budget Declaration for 2023-2025,” the Finance Ministry’s website reported.
At the same time, the Ministry of Finance insists on the preparation by budget managers of high-quality proposals regarding the goals of state policy and the volume of additional expenditures to achieve them in order to form a vision of budget policy for the medium term and make calculations of budget indicators for the next three years.
As reported, the Verkhovna Rada has approved the Budget Declaration for 2022-2024. The Ministry of Finance prepares such a document for three years annually. After the adoption of the new declaration, the previous one becomes invalid, the ministry reminded.
Ukraine and Turkey, within the framework of the Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement, have reached an agreement on the complete liberalization of road transportation.
“As part of the FTA, a historic agreement was reached on the complete liberalization of road transportation. Restrictions for Ukrainian road carriers in the Turkish market will soon be lifted, in particular, this also applies to the entry of empty vehicles. That is, trucks will be able to enter empty and return with goods,” Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov wrote on his Facebook page.
He stressed that the next step is to expand cooperation on combined and multimodal transportation between Ukraine and Turkey.
“We propose to create special conditions for tuning transport chains in the “road-port-road” format,” Kubrakov stressed.
According to him, the strategic goal of Ukraine is the maximum removal of restrictions for Ukrainian carriers.
Kubrakov recalled that in negotiations with the European Union, Ukraine stands for the complete liberalization of road freight traffic.
He also expressed hope that cooperation between Ukraine and Turkey in terms of road construction will be expanded thanks to new projects, including the construction of concession roads.
Kubrakov also stressed that the countries continue to work together on an agreement on cooperation in the field of maritime search and rescue in the Black Sea.
“This is an important issue for Ukraine, which arose sharply after the annexation of Crimea. An agreement with Turkey will help legally secure Ukraine’s areas belonging to it, improve the ability to conduct search and rescue operations. This will eliminate insinuations from the aggressor country about Ukraine’s failure to fulfill its international obligations,” the minister said.
He also noted the prospects for cooperation between Turkish partners and the largest Ukrainian state stevedore – Pivdenny seaport, since among all Ukrainian ports it will potentially be able to receive the largest ships that will enter the Black Sea thanks to the built Istanbul Canal.
Among the proposals voiced by the parties to the discussion of the FTA agreement is the expansion of the geography of air travel between the countries, including on the Istanbul-Uzhgorod route.
