PJSC “National Energy Company (NEC) “Ukrenergo” on July 6 announced the intention to conclude with the insurance group “TAS” for voluntary health insurance services for 8.522 thousand people.
As reported in the system of electronic public procurement Prozorro, the expected cost of the purchase of services is 46.678 million UAH, the price offer of the company – 38.941 million UAH.
The tender was also attended by IC ROM Ukraine with a price offer of UAH 38.626m, VUSO – UAH 44.989mn, Unica – UAH 45.553mn.
“Ukrenergo unites eight regional power systems: Dnipro, Donbas, Western, Crimean, Southern, South-Western, Northern and Central.
“Ukrenergo” operates backbone and interstate power transmission lines, as well as performs centralized dispatching of the country’s united power system. NEC is a state-owned enterprise subordinated to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.
SG TAS was registered in 1998. It is a universal company offering its clients more than 80 types of insurance products on various types of voluntary and compulsory insurance. It has an extensive regional network of 28 regional directorates and branches.
On Thursday, July 13, in the western, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr regions, rain with thunderstorms, in the afternoon in some areas hail and squalls 15-20 m / s, in Transcarpathia and Prykarpattya significant rains, in the rest of the territory without precipitation, reports Ukrhydrometcenter.
The wind is south-western with a transition in the west and north of Ukraine to north-western, 7-12 m/s.
The temperature at night is 12-17°, in the southern part up to 20°, during the day 26-31°, in Odessa region up to 35°, in the western and eastern regions 22-27°.
In Kiev on Thursday without precipitation. The wind is southwesterly with a transition to northwesterly, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 15-17°, during the day about 30°.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after. Borys Sreznevsky in Kiev on July 13, the highest daytime temperature was 34.1° in 1936, the lowest nighttime temperature was 8.2° in 1904.
On Friday, July 14, in Ukraine, except for western and most northern regions, expect short-term rains and thunderstorms, in some areas hail and squalls of 15-20 m/sec.
The wind is predominantly north-western, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night 15-20°, in the southern part up to 23°, during the day 22-27°, in the south 30-32°.
Short rains and thunderstorms are forecast in Kiev on Friday. The wind is northwest, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night is 18-20°, during the day 24-26°.
Enterprises for operations with ferrous scrap in January-June of this year reduced scrap metal procurement by 25.2% compared to the same period last year – up to 531 thousand tons.
As reported in the operational information of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (“UAVtormet”) on Wednesday, the export of scrap metal for the period amounted to 92 thousand tons compared to 28.7 thousand tons in January-June-2022 (growth in 3.2 times). At the same time, import of scrap amounted to 0.5 thousand tons, while in the first six months of last year it amounted to 1.6 thousand tons.
Scrap deliveries to the country’s steel enterprises in January-June 2023 decreased by 37.2% compared to January-June 2022 – to 413.8 thousand tons from 659.4 thousand tons.
As of July 1, 2023, the level of scrap metal stocks at Ukrainian metal enterprises was estimated at 15-20 thousand tons.
As reported, Ukraine in 2022 reduced scrap procurement by 75.9% compared to 2021 – to 996.7 thousand tons from 4.136 million tons. Scrap metal exports last year amounted to 53.6 thousand tons, which is 11.5 times less compared to the previous year (615.7 thousand tons). At the same time, scrap imports amounted to 1.8 thousand tons (23 thousand tons in 2021).
Scrap deliveries to the country’s metal enterprises in 2022 decreased by 73% compared to 2021 – to 895.7 thousand tons from 3 million 323.4 thousand tons.
“UAVtormet” forecasts in 2023 the procurement of ferrous scrap in the amount of 1.2-1.25 million tons. In addition, scrap deliveries to the country’s metal enterprises are forecast to amount to 950-1000 thousand tons. Export of scrap metal is expected to amount to 180-200 thousand tons, import – 0.2-0.5 thousand tons. Steel output is expected to be 4.8-5.2 million tons.
During the year of operation from July 2022 to June 2023, 106 thousand sessions were recorded in the Dobrobut mobile application (the number of times the application was used by one client).
Dobrobut told Interfax-Ukraine that 67 thousand sessions were recorded on the iOS system and 39 thousand on the Android system.
On average, the system records 7,500 appointments for services through the app per month, with the most popular service being an appointment for a doctor’s consultation.
On average, a client views 10 pages on iOS or six pages on Android in one session.
In total, 40% of the app’s sessions were used for making an appointment and paying for services, 30% for viewing documents (doctor’s report, test results, etc.), and 30% for searching for a doctor or viewing a doctor’s profile.
Dobrobut Medical Network launched its mobile application in 2016.
The application allows access to digital medical services on the phone: making an appointment with a doctor at any Dobrobut medical center, viewing consulting opinions, research results, paying for services, making an appointment for online doctor’s explanations, and much more.
The app allows you to link medical records of children and other family members to your profile after verification. With the ability to open multiple profiles, you can collect the medical records of the entire family in one place, as well as make appointments and pay for treatment from one account.
The Documents section stores the doctor’s notes made after each visit, consultative conclusions, test results, research, and other medical documents. It is also possible to upload additional user documents, which will be stored in the same section.
“Dobrobut is one of the largest private healthcare networks in Ukraine. The company’s portfolio includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, an emergency service, dentistry, and pharmacies. The medical centers of the network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical areas. Every year, Dobrobut specialists perform more than 7,000 surgeries. The network employs 2,700 people.
Thanks to cooperation with international charities such as Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute, as well as the work of the Dobrobut Foundation, the network’s clinics continued to operate even during the hostilities and provided a significant part of medical services free of charge for months. Since the first days of the war, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center in Kyiv has been providing emergency medical care to Ukraine’s defenders and people wounded in the fighting 24/7 free of charge. Thanks to the activities of the charitable foundations Direct Relief International and Dobrobut Foundation, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center provides free medical care to wounded soldiers and people in difficult situations due to the hostilities.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on July 11 revoked the license of PJSC Insurance Company Kyivska Rus (Kyiv) to provide financial services, according to the regulator’s website.
The reason for this decision was the failure to submit reports for 2022, failure to submit information and documents at the request of the National Bank and the company’s failure to eliminate the identified violations in the time specified by the regulator (June 8, 2023).
According to the last submitted to the NBU statements of PJSC IC Kyivska Rus for nine months of 2022, the amount of insurance payments amounted to UAH 85,4 mln, of which UAH 76,9 mln was transferred to reinsurance. The insurer has not made any payments during the specified period.
As it was informed, on May 8, 2023 the NBU has applied to IC “Kyivska Rus” a measure of influence in the form of temporary suspension of licenses in connection with non-submission of reports for the first half of 2022 and for 2022, as well as actuarial report for 2022.
The company also did not submit the report on corporate governance and information on key risks and results of stress testing for 2022, did not provide information and documents at the request of the NBU.
Private JSC IC Kyivska Rus carries out activities on voluntary and compulsory types of insurance other than life insurance.
The labor market continues to grow for the fourth month in a row: the number of vacancies in June increased by 4% to May and reached almost 94 thousand, but the dynamics of growth has slowed down a little, such results of regular research of the labor market released the company Work.ua.
“Slightly decreased growth rates and reduced the number of job seekers. However, salaries have increased, which is a natural reaction of employers to the competition for candidates. In general, the labor market continues to recover,” the document says.
According to it, the lower dynamics of growth in June compared to previous months (May +9%, April +14%, March +11%) can be explained by the onset of a low business season.
It is noted that Kyiv region became the leader in the number of vacancies and for the first time crossed the mark of 30.1 thousand, which is almost a third of the total number. The second place is occupied by Lviv region – 9 thousand vacancies or 10% of all offers, the third – Dnipropetrovsk region (8.9 thousand), the fourth – Odessa region (almost 6.9 thousand). Kharkiv region closes the top five with 3.4 thousand job offers.
Kharkiv region is also among the five regions with the largest increase in vacancies (+10%) along with Ivano-Frankivsk region (+10%, up to 3.1 thousand), Zaporizhzhya region (+9%, up to 1.7 thousand), Odessa region (+7%) and Volyn region (+6%, up to 1.9 thousand).
Specialists emphasized that in June there was more work in Kherson region: the increase in vacancies for the month amounted to 12%, but there are still few offers there – only 156.
As for the most demanded positions, the top five traditionally include sales consultant (8.2 thousand vacancies), sales manager (6.4 thousand), driver (3.3 thousand), cook (3.5 thousand) and accountant (3.2 thousand).
The biggest growth in June was shown by the vacancy of elementary school teacher (+44%, up to 187 vacancies).
“Predominantly private schools and kindergartens are looking for staff to prepare children for school during the summer vacation,” – according to Work.ua.
According to the data of the system of hiring management (SUN) Work.ua, the number of job seekers who created and updated resumes in June, decreased compared to a month earlier – by 4%, to 351 thousand. The vast majority of job seekers are women (57%). The largest proportion, 35% of the total, are candidates aged 16-24.
Among job seekers, 36% have no experience, 31% have minimal to 5 years of experience, and 33% have more than 5 years of experience.
The rate at which job seekers are competing for jobs has slowed from 20% in May to 17% in June. Jobs for digital specialists, mainly IT programmers, are in high demand. For example, the competition of applicants for the vacancy of Front-end programmer in June increased almost half as much as in May. Highly competitive vacancies also include chat specialist, video editor, copywriter, graphic designer.
Low competition and, accordingly, better chances to find a job in the positions of medical workers: gastroenterologist, hirudotherapist, ultrasound doctor.
The average salary in Ukraine for the first half of 2023, according to Work.ua, increased by 13% – from 15 thousand UAH to 17 thousand UAH.
In the regional context, the salary increased in Kyiv region – from 18.2 thousand UAH to 18.75 thousand UAH, Lviv region – from 16 thousand UAH to almost 16.78 thousand UAH, Odessa region – from 16 thousand UAH to almost 16.26 thousand UAH and Kharkiv region from 15 thousand UAH to 16 thousand UAH.
The highest salaries are offered to media barber – 55 thousand UAH, driver-international 40 thousand UAH, endodontist, construction project manager, supermarket manager – 35 thousand UAH, business analyst – 34 thousand UAH, as well as straightener and realtor – 32.5 thousand UAH.
The smallest salaries from 7 thousand UAH to 10 thousand UAH are offered to concierge, orderly, cleaner, dishwasher and porter.
