China to provide 230 units of medical equipment for hospitals of Ukraine

"The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade will receive technical assistance from the Government of China, which envisages the delivery of modern medical equipment for hospitals in Ukraine. On January 16, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine authorized First Vice Prime Minister - Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv to sign a relevant agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of China," the Government portal reported.

In May 2016, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry sent a request from the Health Ministry of Ukraine to the Government of China to consider the possibility of providing medical equipment for hospitals in Ukraine on the basis of free assistance. At the end of 2016, the Chinese Government informed about the feasibility of implementing this project. During 2017-2018, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry together with the Chinese side was actively engaged in the development and approval of the terms of the project implementation and technical specification that formed the basis of the draft agreement.

After the conclusion of the agreement during 2019, the Health Ministry will receive more than 230 units of advanced medical equipment for the hospitals of Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In particular, the list of equipment provided by China includes tomographs, linear accelerators, multifunction display, X-ray equipment, heart/interventional angiography systems, microscopes, etc.