Zelensky announced the creation of five medical cities

The total estimate for the Kramatorsk regional multidisciplinary hospital is 8 billion UAH. It will become a flagship project for the construction of five medical centers in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the creation of five medical cities in Ukraine. He said this during a working visit to the Donetsk region, according to the state press service on Friday, October 23.

Thus, during the visit, Zelensky was presented with a plan for the construction of a multidisciplinary regional hospital in Kramatorsk, which should become a flagship medical project for the construction of five medical cities across the country.

Such a medical institution will be able to provide high-quality, highly specialized medical care to more than 2.5 million residents of the Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov regions.

The cost of the first stage of construction is indicated to be 5.9 billion hryvnia, the total estimate is 8 billion hryvnia. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2021, subject to the availability of adequate funds.

“We have a task: to make five medical cities in Ukraine. We will do them,” said the president.

Zelensky also focused on the need to seek non-budget financing for the construction of the entire city at the same time, and not gradually, in shifts over several years.

The day before, Zelensky said that a unique coronavirus vaccine was being developed in Ukraine and promised that he was ready to test it himself.

It was also learned that Ukraine is developing a COVID vaccine with Americans. In the near future, it will begin to be tested in humans.

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