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Switzerland delivers 1.5 mln express COVID-19 tests, 30 ventilators to Donbas – ministry
KYIV. Sept 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Representatives of the humanitarian aid department of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, with the assistance of the Ministry for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, delivered humanitarian aid weighing 2,300 tonnes to Donetsk and Luhansk regions from September 1 to September 16.
The ministry’s press service said on Monday, the mission’s humanitarian cargo included chemicals for water purification, equipment and spare parts for it, used at the water treatment plants of communal enterprise "Voda Donbasu" (Water of Donbas). Some 1.5 million express tests for coronavirus (COVID-19), some 30 artificial lung ventilators and other medical equipment that are most in demand were delivered. It took 138 trucks to deliver the cargo.
According to the ministry, express tests, some of which were personally handed over to the Reintegration Ministry by Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine Claude Wild, were delivered to medical facilities and testing points located at the entry-exit checkpoint of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions.
The supplies of goods aimed at combating and detecting COVID-19 were carried out from the reserves of the pharmaceutical service of the Swiss Armed Forces and the Federal Office of Public Health. The total cost of humanitarian aid from Switzerland in 2021 is nearly CHF 12 million, the largest aid from Switzerland since 2015.
In total, since 2015, with the assistance and coordination of the Reintegration Ministry, Switzerland has transferred to the east of Ukraine more than 15,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid worth almost CHF 27 million.
