Twelve countries have expressed their preparedness to provide Ukraine with consultative assistance and equipment and medicines supplies to suppress the A(H1N1) flu epidemic.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko announced this during the conference call meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday.
Poroshenko said he sent on October 30 letters to the Ukrainian embassies abroad with the instruction to apply to the governments with a request for assistance in the suppression of the epidemic.
The letters contained a list of medical equipment and medicines, which has been agreed with the Health Ministry.
According to the Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine has received answers from 12 countries and the contact with them has been established at the level of the health ministries.
He said the contact has been established with member-states of the European Union, the NATO Headquarters, and the World Health Organization.
He said the contact has been established with the Embassy of India, where 16 pharmaceutical producers have proposed to supply medicines to Ukraine for free.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked the European Commission and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) provide Ukraine with humanitarian aid to help fight A(H1N1) flu epidemic.
Russia intending to help Ukraine fight the A(H1N1) epidemic.
India intends to provide Ukraine with medicines for preventing the influenza epidemic in the country from spreading.
On October 30, the Health Ministry declared the A(H1N1) epidemic in Ukraine
