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On 21 May 2020, jointly with the Ministry of Health and the Association of Anesthesiologists of Ukraine, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation held an online conference for doctors operating the ventilators. This was a three-hour webinar where the leading experts of the Ministry of Health told the doctors of public hospitals the world's best practices in the treatment of COVID-19 and some details when operating the latest models of ventilators. READ MORE

According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, more than 3,800 medical workers have become ill with COVID-19 so far. This is a fifth part of the total number of all infected. Emergency physicians, who are often the first to come into contact with the infected, are the vulnerable. Therefore, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation purchased and transferred 20,000 COVID-19 rapid tests to seven emergency medical care regional centers. In the light of this, about 10,000 people are able to undergo testing in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Zhytomyr and Rivne Oblasts. READ MORE

The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Association of Anesthesiologists are launching online courses to train healthcare professionals to operate the ventilators. The corresponding Memorandum of Cooperation was signed in Kyiv on 19 May 2020. READ MORE

The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation transferred a modern Convergys® PCRtist coronavirus testing analyser complete with test cartridges to the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. READ MORE

The Mariupol branch of the Donetsk Regional Laboratory Centre of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine received QuantStudio™5 complete with SARS-CoV-2 onestep RT-PCR, CE-IVD and E Series 120 cm biosafety box, MSC-IIA-E120, Metisafe. This equipment will allow doctors to qualitatively determine COVID-19, which causes severe complications, in laboratory conditions. The equipment was purchased and handed over to Donbass doctors as personally decided upon by the Founder of the Foundation Rinat Akhmetov. READ MORE

Today, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation passed on 25,000 rapid tests medical workers of Kyiv Region to detect COVID-19. The delivery took place in the city hospital number 3 of the Bila Tserkva. From here, tests will be distributed throughout the area. READ MORE

Today Kyiv received 25,000 rapid tests to detect coronavirus. This part of the 300,000 tests transferred to the country by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation is part of the national campaign to combat the COVID-19 epidemic. They will be delivered to medical institutions of the capital of Ukraine: hospitals, primary health care centres, and maternity hospitals. READ MORE

Today, 15 April, within the framework of interaction with the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Headquarters combating coronavirus, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and Metinvest Group handed over 15,000 tests to medical institutions in Kryvyi Rih in order to detect COVID-19. READ MORE

The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and DTEK transferred 30,000 rapid tests to Dnipropetrovsk Region to detect COVID-19. Today, on 14 April, cargo with rapid tests was delivered to Dnipro and Pavlohrad. READ MORE

Today, on 13 April, the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and Chief Executive in charge of urban development at Metinvest Holding, the SCM representative at the Regional Headquarters combating coronavirus, Oleksandr Vyshniakov, sent another 50,000 rapid tests to detect COVID-19 to Donetsk Region. They have already been delivered to logistics centers in the cities of Donetsk Region. Then they will be transported to state medical institutions. READ MORE