METINVEST Group, LLC in cooperation with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation have purchased vitally important medical supplies to provide rescue emergency medical care for the people inured as a result of hostilities. The first lot of medicines and instruments with the total value of more than UAH 30 mln has already been received by the humanitarian hub, and shortly it will be allocated among hospitals in the cities of the Company’s presence.
“Doctors today are more talented and professional. They are true heroes who save lives, give hope and a chance to live in the midst of war darkness. We strive to help them and meet the needs of medical institutions with necessary medical supplies. As early as next week the doctors of Zaporizhia, Kryvyi Rih, Avdiivka, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk and Kamianske start to receive from METINVEST, LLC medicines and medical equipment that helps save lives,” noted the head of METINVEST Humanitarian Mission Coordination Centre in Zaporizhia and General Director of PJSC “ZAPORIZHSTAL IRON AND STEEL WORKS” Oleksandr Myronenko.
METINVEST, LLC of Rinat Akhmentov and Vadim Novinsky received a request from the hospitals and defined a list of necessary medical supplies in the coordination with the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine. The purchased items included, among other things, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, anesthetics and hemostatic drugs, anticoagulants, solutions for intravenous infusion, surgical instruments and consumables, intubation items, etc. Next batches of medical supplies will be formed based on the latest requests of medical institutions.
It is worth noting that on March, 17 Metinvest Group of Rinat Akhmetov and Vadim Novinsky donated 1,610 medical kits to four medical institutions Zaporizhia. Metinvest Group donated about UAH 700 ths to purchase vitally important medical supplies.