Ukrainian industrial company Interpipe shipped a shipment of over 2,600 wheels to Moroccan railroads – Office National des Chemins de Fer (ONCF).
According to the company’s press release, Interpipe continues to hold the country’s economic front, increasing its exports, in particular to African countries.
It is specified that ONCF usually holds tenders once in three years, concluding long-term agreements with suppliers. Under this contract, the Moroccan railroads use Ukrainian products to update the fleet of passenger cars Fiat AnsaldoBreda electric train and freight cars.
Alexander Garkavy, director of Interpipe’s railway products division, stated that the group has been cooperating with ONCF for about 15 years.
“During this time the company has managed to prove itself a reliable supplier of wheels. Morocco is increasing its rolling stock fleet as part of the construction of a high-speed electric train line, so Interpipe hopes to further develop its partnership with Moroccan railroads,” said the division’s director, quoted by the press service.
He added that the African continent as a whole is a promising market for the development of rail supplies.
“We are already cooperating with Mauritania, Gabon, Egypt and intend to expand our presence in other countries of the region,” Garkavy explained.
“Interpipe is a Ukrainian industrial company producing seamless pipes and railway wheels. The company supplies its products to over 80 countries all over the world through a network of commercial offices located in the key markets of the CIS, Middle East, North America, and Europe. The sales of railway products are carried out under the KLW brand.
Interpipe has 10 thousand employees.
The company consists of five industrial assets: “Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant (NTZ)”, “Interpipe Novomoskovsk Tube Plant (NMTZ)”, “Interpipe Niko Tube”, “Interpipe Vtormet” and the electric steelmaking complex “Dneprosteel” under the brand name “Interpipe Steel”.
The ultimate owner of Interpipe Limited is Ukrainian businessman Viktor Pinchuk and his family members.
There is an imbalance between the number of physical rehabilitation centers in Ukraine and the number of rehabilitation specialists that is currently insufficient, according to Vadim Kerestey, head of rehabilitation department of Adonis medical clinic network.
“We can observe a noticeable imbalance between the number of physical rehabilitation centers that have opened over the last year and the number of experienced specialists who can provide quality assistance to the injured”, – he told Interfax-Ukraine.
At the same time, according to Kerestei, “the medical system of Ukraine does not currently have sufficient capacity to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services.”
“The heavy load on the entire medical system of Ukraine, the lack of the necessary number of experienced specialists and specialized centers make it impossible to provide harmonious and versatile rehabilitation care wherever it is needed,” he said.
The expert noted that “the state catastrophically lacks physically enough doctors of rehabilitation medicine: physical therapists and occupational therapists.”
“Many, newly opened, rehabilitation centers are critically understaffed with a team of specialized experienced physicians and must create a team from scratch, with specialists who have very little clinical experience, which consequently affects the quality of patient care,” he said.
At the same time, the expert noted that “the state medical system is changing very rapidly and actively adapting.
“This allows us to say that in the near future we will be able to do everything for the quality and comprehensive recovery of patients who suffered as a result of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine,” he said.
“An option for cooperation between the state and private rehabilitation centers could be the following scenario: since private medical centers already have excellent conditions for comprehensive and effective rehabilitation of victims, the state should guarantee 100% compensation to patients for rehabilitation costs in such medical institutions,” Kerestei believes.
The expert noted that such cooperation may be beneficial for the state due to the specifics of rehabilitation: many state rehabilitation centers cannot provide effective help and there will be a need to undergo repeated courses of treatment several times.
At the same time, according to Kerestei, in private medical centers “after the first cycle, the patient will have significantly better results or even will fully recover and be able to return to normal social life.
Commenting on Adonis’ place in the national rehabilitation system, Kerestay pointed out that the network of medical centers has been working with wounded warriors for more than 15 months.
He reported that Adonis has had “a vivid experience working with charitable foundations and private donors”.
Kerestey stressed that “rehabilitation is an individual and long-term process.”
“Unfortunately, we can’t talk about a specific price range. The cost of rehabilitation depends on the severity of the injury, the accompanying schedules, and the speed and quality of primary care,” he said.
Commenting on the development of prosthetics in Ukraine, Kerestey noted that “the situation in the state medical system is much better in this regard.”
“Now all prosthetics procedures take place at state expense. But providing a prosthesis is only half the success. The victim must first be prepared for the prosthetics procedure (surgeons, prosthetists and rehabilitologists work with him at this stage), and once the prosthesis is fitted, the difficult stage of patient adaptation to using the device begins and this process is impossible without the participation of an experienced rehabilitator,” he said.
The Cabinet of Ministers has added rose hips and almonds to the list of fruit and berry crops for planting which one can receive a grant under the state program to establish or develop horticulture, viticulture and berry growing.
According to the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk in Telegram, the relevant changes were made to the Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 738 “Some issues of grants for businesses” at a government meeting on Tuesday.
According to Melnychuk, a separate list of areas for planting has been established for almonds.
According to the decree, the enterprise that has received the grant must prove the creation of new jobs with copies of documents submitted to the State Tax Service. In particular, it is necessary to provide a copy of the tax calculation of the amounts of income accrued (paid) in favor of taxpayers-individuals, the amounts of tax withheld from them, as well as the amounts of accrued single fee for recent reporting periods.
In addition, the government has identified a list of taxes and fees for monitoring and fixing the refund used by the business entity.
As reported, since the beginning of the year as of May 19, 61 agro-enterprises received 201 million UAH for the development of horticulture, berry-growing, viticulture and greenhouse farming within the framework of the profile government grant.
The State Forestry Agency of Ukraine (Goslesagentstvo) on the basis of several branches of the state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” launched a pilot project to prevent manipulations with bills of lading (BOT), which now must be accompanied by photos of wood loaded into machines, said the head of the agency Yuri Bolokhovets.
“Unfortunately, there was a gap in the system of control of the consignment note. Unclean forestry workers could theoretically break tags and take out several lots of wood of the same volume under one TTN. We solve the problem by adding photos of the logs loaded on the truck to the TTN. “Profile” and “Anfas”. The pattern of the stacked timber is unique, it is almost impossible to duplicate”, – he wrote in Facebook.
The head of the State Forest Agency is sure that this innovation will make manipulations with the TTN more risky. The police, forest guards and local activists will be able to unmask criminals by comparing a photo with the TTN with the real look of logs in the car body.
According to his information, the pilot project has been implemented in several branches. At present the quality of the system is being tested. In the near future we plan to scale up the new control tool to all branches of the State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” and other forest users.
“Detenization is one of the important results of the forest industry reform. Centralization of management finally opened up the possibility to introduce something that has been successfully working for our colleagues from the Baltic States, Scandinavia and Poland for a long time,” said Bolokhovets.
He has informed that at the second stage of the pilot project all timber trucks will be equipped with GPS-trackers. The Head of the State Forest Agency is sure that this will allow to control and trace online the process of timber transportation.
The timber shipment receipt is one of the parts of the Uniform State System of Electronic Timber Records. The document gives the buyer the right to transport the consignment of timber. The date, volume of the timber, driver’s and car’s data and number of tags are written in the bill of lumber. Information about the TTN is publicly available on the website of the state enterprise “LIAC”. According to the number of the document or the number of the car here you can check the authenticity of the documents of the driver of the timber truck.
As reported, in Ukraine in 2016 the reform of forestry began. Within its framework, the sale of unprocessed timber at electronic auctions has already been introduced. Since 2021, an interactive map of timber processing facilities in a number of regions in the test mode is working.
In the industry introduced the project “Forest in your smartphone”, which contains a list of logging tickets for logging and allows you to check the legality of logging on the online map of the department.
Ukraine on June 1, the pilot of electronic issuance of logging tickets and certificates of origin of timber.
The next stage of the forest industry reform will be the separation of managerial, permitting and economic functions of the State Enterprise “Forests of Ukraine”.
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell hopes that a decision will be found this week to unlock another tranche of EUR 500 million in military support for Ukraine.
He said this at a press conference after a meeting of the Council at the level of defense ministers of the member countries of the European Union in Brussels on Tuesday.
Borrell said this issue is still under discussion. He said any hurdles to approve this amount will be overcome this week and it was the subject of discussion at the technical meeting of the committee.
As it is known, the allocation of this amount is blocked by Hungary, arguing that one of its banks is on the Ukrainian “black list.”
Yadro Systems was established in Ukraine in 2021 and united specialists in IT industry, artificial intelligence, laboratory management and pathomorphologists to create unique software – medical information system for pathomorphological and molecular genetic laboratories.
Yaroslav Nedashkovsky, one of the creators of the system, notes that the SlidePath program is unparalleled and was developed taking into account all the peculiarities of the pathomorphological laboratory:
“The synergy of our team’s knowledge and experience helped create a really cool product. In close collaboration with the largest Ukrainian pathomorphological laboratory – CSD LAB, we developed SlidePath software that covers all the needs of small, medium and even large pathomorphological laboratories.
Quality control is an extremely important process in every laboratory, and thanks to our program, we are able to track each specimen at different stages of examination and ensure clear compliance with the technological process. Barcoding, synchronization with the laboratory equipment, protocols of conclusions – all this allows the laboratory to significantly improve not only the quality of its work, but also the speed of research.
We saw quite a great perspective in the creation of this program, because not only in Ukraine, but in the world in general, there is a need for significant automation of pathomorphological laboratories. And since our colleagues from CSD LAB have a great competence in this area, from the very beginning we tried to make software that would be suitable for different types of laboratories of different scale and scope of work”.
The IT assistant for pathomorphology laboratories created by Yadro Systems specialists has several modules that can be customized to meet the specific needs of the laboratory. The key functions of the software include: creation of an electronic database of results, the ability to print test result forms, notification of patients about the readiness of results, and quality control of studies, starting from the stage of labeling biomaterials samples to delivery of results.
Among the main advantages of SlidePath connection, Yaroslav Nedashkovsky singles out a user-friendly interface, which allows for easy mastering and quick implementation of the laboratory information system.
“This year we are launching this product in Ukraine and worldwide,” adds Yadro Systems director, “So if you are a pathomorphologist, or a small or medium-sized laboratory, you can contact us today and we will provide digilization of your workflow, because SlidePath is software developed together with pathomorphologists and a clear understanding of their needs to improve their work convenience.
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