The Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Serhiy Hrynevetsky together with his First Deputy Borys Voloshenko held a working meeting with the Executive Director of Fresenius Vamed Matthias Koehler, during which they discussed the start of an international pilot project in the Odessa region.

According to the agreement between the management of Odessa Regional State Administration and Vamed, technical maintenance, service and repair of equipment will be carried out in two medical institutions of the region - at the Filatov Institute of Ophthalmology and Tissue Therapy and at the Danube Regional Hospital in Izmail.

"The key goal of our project is to provide the population of Ukraine with high-quality medical care through long-term technically competent maintenance and operation of existing medical equipment. We will provide long-term monitoring and analysis of the economic feasibility of uninterrupted technical maintenance (timely maintenance and repair) of medical equipment and engineering systems of hospitals. Our actions will be reflected in the production and economic plane and will lead to a reduction in investment in the purchase of new hospital equipment by investing in continuous, technically competent maintenance of existing "

Matthias Koehler, Executive Director of Fresenius Vamed

“These two medical institutions are significant for the Odesa region: the VP Filatov Institute of Ophthalmology and Tissue Therapy is a whole school of a world-famous academician. And the Danube Regional Hospital, in Izmail, is located a few kilometers from the European Union. Therefore, I am convinced that this is where we will start introducing European standards in medicine"

Serhiy Hrynevetsky

In turn, the First Deputy Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Borys Voloshenkov added that today the leadership of the Odessa region faces the task of working out a strategy to counter the pandemic, including the creation of specialized medical institutions of a compact type.

“On behalf of the head of the Odessa regional state administration Serhiy Hrynevetsky, we are currently working out options for finding a site for the deployment of a specialized hospital. As soon as it is clearly defined where and when, we will face the next question - design. And taking into account your experience in the global healthcare market, we see further cooperation in this direction with the company "Vamed".

Boris Voloshenkov

In addition, during the meeting, an agreement was reached on planning in the near future, training of health professionals in the Odessa region, online, leading experts in various fields of specialization, from Austria and Germany.

Vamed is a world leader in comprehensive healthcare facilities. 77% of the company's shares belong to the German concern Fresenius, 13% - owned by the state of Austria. The company has successfully implemented more than 900 projects in 95 countries. Vamed's partners include the world-famous Charité Clinic in Germany, the National Maternal and Child Health Research Center in Astana, Kazakhstan, the medical center in Tripoli, Libya, and the Al Ain Hospital (UAE).