Germany will provide Ukraine with 13.1 million euros to modernize hospitals and purchase modern equipment for treating COVID-19, the Ministry for Reintegration reported on Feb. 8.
The money will go to fight the consequences of the pandemic in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia oblasts, as well as parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that are controlled by Ukraine.
Ukraine will receive the grant from German state-owned development bank KfW and will use it to modernize 12 primary and secondary medical facilities. The Ukrainian Social Investment Fund, a nonprofit founded in 2020 to support vulnerable groups of the population, will manage the funds.
The Ukrainian Social Investment Fund also manages funds given to Ukraine by the World Bank, the European Union, Sweden, Britain, Japan, United Nations as well as some other organizations and nations that give Ukraine money on social projects.
On Feb. 8, Ukraine and Germany also signed a separate grant agreement worth 23.5 million euros.
Nine million euros will go on building housing for internally displaced people who fled the war-torn Donbas, while 14.4 million euros will be spent on the modernization of 40 hospitals in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
The Ministry for Reintegration, spearheaded by Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, was created in 2016 to manage the reintegration and welfare of Ukraine’s territories affected by the seven-year war with Russia.
