“We do not plan to stop at what has been achieved. We have already managed to purchase eight artificial lung ventilation devices outside Ukraine. Four of them will be sent in the near future to the hospital in Stryi, which is designated as the main one for treating coronavirus patients in several districts. The other four will be transferred to medical institutions in Lviv,” noted the founder of OKKO Group, Vitaliy Antonov.
Free rides from Uber for medical workers are already available in Kyiv and Lviv. Next will be Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Vinnytsia. Medical institutions involved in the initiative are determined by the Ministry of Health and local authorities. The current list of institutions is available on the company's website, where you can also find instructions for medical workers on how to order such transportation.
The Uklon service has launched a similar service in Lviv and is preparing to launch it in Kherson, Dnipro, Odesa, Mariupol, and Mykolaiv. This service has the widest coverage and plans to include a total of 13 cities in the program.
Medical workers in Kyiv and Lviv are already receiving free rides from Bolt. Thanks to additional funding from OKKO, the geography of the service is expanding — Odesa and Kharkiv will soon join it.
*Earlier, the Ministry of Health, local authorities, and Uber signed an agreement on free transportation of medical workers to their workplaces during quarantine. Initially, it was planned to make 10 thousand such trips, but with the support of OKKO, their number was increased to 30 thousand.
