Okhmatdyt Reconstruction Board to show how funds will be used at offsite meeting
Kyiv • UNN
The Okhmatdyt Reconstruction Council will hold an offsite meeting to demonstrate how the funds raised are being used. Minister Lyashko explained the situation with the 11th surgical building, which needs reconstruction.
The Council for the Restoration of Okhmatdyt will hold an offsite meeting at the hospital with representatives of the Okhmatdyt - Healthy Childhood Charitable Foundation to show step by step how the funds raised will be used. This was announced by Health Minister Viktor Lyashko during an hour of questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada, a correspondent of UNN reports.
Regarding the charity fund and the transfer. Yesterday, the Council for the Restoration of Okhmatdyt met. It decided to hold an offsite meeting on the territory of Okhmatdyt with representatives of the foundation to show how the money raised for the foundation's account will be used. Today they are not used
He also commented on the situation with the 11th Surgical Corps .
The 11th building is an old surgical building that was recognized as an emergency according to a technical inspection. It cannot be restored along with the current repairs; it needs to be reconstructed in accordance with the new state building codes. Based on the terms of reference, the experts will offer several options for how best to proceed from an economic and practical point of view
Context
The Ministry of Health announced, that it was canceling tenders for engineering and consulting services and technical supervision of the repair of Okhmatdyt for UAH 14 million. This is due to a new tender for the current repairs and interior decoration of the complex.
Against the backdrop of canceled tenders, the Ministry of Health decided to create a Council to oversee the restoration of the destroyed buildings of the National Children's Specialized Hospital "Okhmatdyt".
On August 16, Okhmatdyt CEO Volodymyr Zhovnir statedthat the Okhmatdyt - Healthy Childhood Charitable Foundation, which has raised over UAH 370 million to restore the hospital, has no plans to transfer funds to the account of the Okhmatdyt National Children's Hospital. The Foundation responded to the accusations and noted that it had not received any letters from the Foundation requesting to transfer funds to the account of the Ohmatdyt National Children's Hospital with the appropriate designation.
