Metinvest allocated more than UAH 140 million to help medical institutions of Ukraine

Metinvest Group, together with the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation and within the framework of the «Saving Lives» humanitarian project, allocated more than UAH 140 million to help medical institutions of Ukraine, primarily in the cities of presence. The company reports about it on the Facebook page.

“The enemy doesn’t care what to attack – even hospitals are under fire. Therefore, doctors are forced to save the lives of injured Ukrainians in extremely difficult conditions, at the same time risking their own lives. Metinvest began to help from the first days of the war so that medical institutions had everything they needed to work, staff and patients felt safe,” the message says.

The company provides various medicines, consumables and modern equipment to medical institutions, which will allow to get wounded soldiers and civilians back on their feet faster.

In general, since the beginning of the war, the amount of assistance from Metinvest to Ukraine and Ukrainians has reached more than UAH 2 billion. 1.3 billion of them is directed to support the army and help the military.

As GMK Center reported earlier, from the beginning of the Russian invasion, Metinvest has handed over 150,000 body armors to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Thus, every tenth body armor in the Armed Forces is made of Metinvest steel or purchased by the Group.

During the seven months of 2022, the Metinvest-SMC’s bases processed approximately 500 shipments for the needs of the Ukrainian defenders with a total amount of almost 4,000 tons of steel. The company produces many things from steel for defenders of Ukraine, in particular, plates for body armors, turbo stoves, etc.