USIF-VIII

‘Promotion of Social Infrastructure Development - USIF.VIII’ Project
 
Objectives: strengthening primary and secondary health care institutions’ capacities to counteract COVID-19 and pandemic consequences through energy-efficient renovation of their premises, supply of medical equipment and trainings for medical staff, heads of medical institutions as well as officials responsible for the health care sphere in partner communities and health care managers at the regional level
Donor: German Government through KfW
Implementation period: 2021 – 2026
The grant funds amount: EUR 13 560 600,00

13 objects (subprojects) were selected for renovation (implementation) in  Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia,  Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the year 2021.  Until 23.02.2022 dynamic work to develop design and estimate documentation, prepare environmental and social management plans, examine facilities for asbestos-containing materials availability, assess and summarize the needs of partner medical institutions in equipment and capacity building activities was being carried out. However, the russian aggression, which began on February 24, 2022, forced to almost completely update the list of objects (subprojects) for renovation (implementation). As of now the list contains 9 objects, namely:
  1. Outpatient clinic of Slobozhanske village primary health care center (PHCC), Dnipropetrovsk region;
  2. Kryvyy Rih city hospital No. 2, Dnipropetrovsk region;
  3. Kryvyi Rih infectious diseases hospital No. 1, Dnipropetrovsk region;
  4. Outpatient clinic No. 7 of the PHCC No. 3 in Kamianske town, Dnipropetrovsk region;
  5. Infectious diseases department of Slobozhansk Central Hospital, Dnipropetrovsk region;
  6. Berestyn (Krasnohrad) central district hospital, Kharkiv region;
  7. Slobozhanske village hospital, Chuhuiv district, Kharkiv region;
  8. Borodyanka village central hospital, Kyiv region;
  9. Outpatient clinic No. 12 of the PHCC No. 6, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region.
As of the end of March 2025, facilities of 4 medical institutions, indicated first in the aforementioned list, were restored already. Apart from that shelters were arranged at 3 of them. They were provided with medical equipment, devices and furniture worth EUR 1.69 mln. in addition.
Construction/renovation works were carried out at the facilities of 3 medical institutions, which have numbers from 5 to 7 on the list. A shelter was being arranged at one of these facilities. Preparations for procurement of medical equipment for these institutions were being made.
In the course of preparations for construction works execution at the facilities of the eighth and ninth institutions, the contractor was being selected and the development and approval of design and cost estimate documentation was ongoing, respectively.
Implementation of the comprehensive training program for physicians, heads of medical institutions and officials responsible for managing the sphere of health care in the Project's partner communities was successfully completed in the 1st quarter 2025.
A modern rehabilitation complex designed to restore the functioning of the patients' motor apparatus and equipment for treatment and monitoring of vital functions for patients with Covid-19 worth more, than EUR 990 thousand, was purchased with the use of the Project funds and handed over to the First Lviv Medical Association in 2022.
In order to ensure compliance with environmental and social regulations by all involved parties, Environmental and Social Management Framework for the Project as well as Operation and Maintenance Concept for renovated objects and a viability plan pattern as an appendix to the Concept were developed and approved.