At the 17th meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine (Ramstein), Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles reported on the recent shipment of aid to Ukraine, including medicines and surgical instruments.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense, Robles informed about the recent shipment of 15 pallets of medicines and surgical instruments to Ukraine, which will ensure the operation of the field hospital transferred by Spain a few months ago.
“The minister also reported on the cooperation of Spanish industry in supplying equipment and ammunition to Ukraine and spoke in detail about the program to support the reception of families of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action in military recreation centers on the Spanish coast,” the statement said.
Robles noted good progress in the training of the Ukrainian military in Spain, where more than 3,000 servicemen have been trained to date. She added that it is planned to teach training courses on the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law for representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The state-owned enterprise Medical Procurement of Ukraine (MPU) has delivered to hospitals 94% of the medical products purchased in 2022 for a total of UAH 5.1 billion.
According to the press release of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine, more than 98% of the medical supplies procured in 2022 have been delivered to the warehouse of the state-owned enterprise.
“We deliver medicines almost every day, so we are able to quickly meet the needs of healthcare facilities when they arise,” the Ministry of Health clarified.
In addition, the Ministry of Health continues to deliver goods procured for the 2023 budget. So far, the goods purchased for the 2023 budget have been delivered to hospitals in the amount of over UAH 1.4 billion.
The Israeli Health Ministry has sent medicines totaling UAH 100 million to Ukraine as humanitarian aid at the request of the AFU, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said.
“We continue to help Ukraine in this difficult time, so at the request of the Ukrainian side, funds were collected and the transfer of humanitarian aid was organized. We plan further cooperation between our countries,” the agency’s website quoted Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky as saying.
Israel will send several tons of medicines to Ukraine in the coming days at the request of the Ukrainian side, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky said.
“Today there was a conversation between the health ministers of Israel and Ukraine. In the coming days, at the request of the Ukrainian side, Israel will send several tons of medicines to Ukraine,” Brodsky wrote in his Telegram channel on Monday.
In the second quarter of 2023 there is a noticeable recovery in the number of provided medicines after a decline in the winter period, which indicates a continuing trend of their increase compared to previous years, according to the press release of the insurance company “INGO” (Kiev).
It is also noted that the analysis of the popularity of services showed a continued increased demand for diagnostics since September 2022. At the same time consultations of doctors remain at a stable level without significant changes.
The other groups of services, although accounting for less than 20% of the total, do not show pronounced changes, with the exception of medical examinations, the demand for which has doubled in recent months compared to the preliminary figures.
According to the report, for the provision of medical services to its clients in the second quarter of 2023 paid UAH 110 million. The amount of payments for accident insurance programs has also increased.
According to the information of the Department of personal types of insurance, the average number of customer contacts is kept at a fairly high level – about 1.5 thousand contacts daily, but a little less than in the winter-spring period.
JSC INGO Insurance Company has more than 25 years of experience in the market. Since 2017, the main shareholder of the company is the Ukrainian business group DCH of Oleksandr Iaroslavskyi.
The company has 29 licenses for various types of compulsory and voluntary insurance, provides insurance services to corporate and retail clients.
The Dobrobut medical network has launched the second stage of the program of free medications for oncology patients.
The nursing network informed Interfax-Ukraine that the program is implemented with the support of Direct Relief International Charitable Foundation.
During the second stage of the program providing free drugs for cancer patients will be able to get drugs for pancreatic, intestinal and breast cancer – Cyclophosphamide 500mg, Cyclophosphamide 1g made in USA and Fluorouracil 50mg made in UK.
“Patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer or colon cancer or pancreatic cancer and prescribed the appropriate drug can receive the drug,” the company specified.
“Dobrobut” is one of the largest private medical networks in Ukraine. It consists of 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, emergency service, dentistry and pharmacy. Medical centers of network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical directions. Annually experts of “Dobrobut” carry out more than 7000 operations. The network has over 2,800 employees.
Collaborates with a number of international charities Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and the University of Miami Global Institute, as well as the Dobrobut Foundation, a charitable foundation founded by the clinic.
