Chinese Government provides RMB 20 million grant for provision of medical equipment to Ukrainian Ministry of Defense

On November 22, 2013, China’s Ministry of National Defense and Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense signed an exchange of letters, which committed RMB 20 million of grant funding for the provision of medical equipment. According to the agreement, China’s Ministry of National Defense was responsible for transportation costs and delivery of the medical devices. Any additional costs were to be covered by the Government of Ukraine. The equipment package consisted of 22 medical devices, including a phthalmic excimer laser, photocoagulators with different wavelengths used to treat retinal diseases, an angiograph, an optical coherence tomograph, an endothelial microscope, an optical biometer, a computer perimeter, a frequency doubling perimeter (for the full list of devices, see the source, ""Угода між Міністерством...""). The ultimate purpose of the project was to provide highly specialized ophthalmological care to wounded servicemen and patients of Holovnyy Viysʹkovyy Klinichnyy Hospitalʹ (Національний військово-медичний клінічний центр «Головний військовий клінічний госпіталь») in the capital city of Kyiv. The equipment arrived at Boryspil International Airport in December 2015. The total weight of the equipment was 11.89 tons. The volume of the equipment is 28.23 cubic meters. The equipment arrived at the ophthalmology clinic of Holovnyy Viysʹkovyy Klinichnyy Hospitalʹ or around January 20, 2016.

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In 2013, the First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine and Chief Ophthalmologist of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Colonel of the Medical Service Bohdan Zhupan, paid an official visit to the People's Republic of China. During the visit, the final quantities and types of equipment were negotiated.

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