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The Swiss pharmaceutical company Acino has become a partner in a project to provide the frontline area and destroyed hospitals in the regions with state-of-the-art mobile hospitals to provide emergency care to the wounded.

Acino shipped 1600 packages of medicines from its own product portfolio to the pilot medical complex on wheels for a total of UAH 150 thousand. In particular, these are drugs used in neurology, psychiatry, cardiology and therapy.

The project was initiated by the Charitable Foundation for Reconstruction and Development of Ukraine, which plans to purchase 52 mobile hospitals. The cost of one such medical complex on wheels is 240 thousand euros. In total, 14 organizations both in Ukraine and abroad have joined the project.

The company plans to provide medicines to the next mobile hospitals within the framework of this project. This was stated by Yevhen Zaika, CEO of Acino in Ukraine, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Pharma Start, during the presentation of the project at the end of 2022 at the Parkovy Exhibition and Convention Center, Kyiv.

A mobile hospital is a specialized development that is a full-fledged hospital on wheels, equipped with the most modern medical equipment:

• reception area – hydraulic examination couch, battery-operated examination lamps on wheels, ophthalmoscope, instrument table, and bins;
• Laboratory – an autoclave, a blood centrifuge, a urine centrifuge, a freezer, an examination couch, an examination lamp, an electronic glucometer, a hematology analyzer, a hemoglobinometer, a heat sealer for sterilizing bags, a microscope, a commercial refrigerator;
• X-ray room – X-ray table, X-ray and ultrasound machines, protective equipment, X-ray viewing boxes;
• operating room – stationary defibrillator, diathermy apparatus, portable infusion pumps, instrument tables, laryngoscope, operating table, lamps for shadowless light with batteries, aspiration pump, anesthesia machine, garbage cans, adjustable stool with wall, resuscitation trolley;
• technical room, toilet and shower.

The mobile hospital has increased cross-country ability and its own generator, which allows it to operate completely autonomously. Two teams of medics can work in the mobile hospital at the same time and can save up to 100 lives a day, based on the “golden hour” principle. If necessary and subject to sufficient medical staffing, the hospital can provide care to more patients.

Acino has been supporting the people and the state since the first days of the full-scale war. Since February 24, the company has donated over UAH 67 million for humanitarian purposes. This includes more than 200 thousand packs of medicines to hospitals and hospitals and more than UAH 8 million to support the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and charitable organizations. At the beginning of 2023, Acino was recognized by the President of Ukraine for supporting Ukraine and the Ukrainian people at a crucial moment.