The Taiwanese government has pledged to provide US$5 million in funding for the renovation of a medical building providing post-surgery rehabilitation services in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The government would finance the renovation of a rehabilitation building at the Unbroken National Rehabilitation Center in Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine, the ministry said yesterday in a press release.
Once the renovation is completed, the building would be renamed the “Taiwan Friendship Building,” the release said.
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To facilitate the aid, representatives from the Taipei Representative Office in Poland, the Lviv City Government and Unbroken virtually signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday, the release said.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Francois Wu (吳志中), who was present at the signing ceremony, said the government would continue to collaborate with the Lviv city government and assist in Ukraine’s efforts to forge ahead in times of difficulty.
Meanwhile, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, who is currently in Taiwan for a five-day visit, thanked Taiwan for its generosity and said that the aid would further benefit wounded people in Ukraine.
The latest financial support pledged by Taipei followed the provision in 2022 of US$800,000 in donations to the Multidisciplinary Clinical Hospital of Emergency and Intensive Care in Lviv, which is now part of the Unbroken National Rehabilitation Center.
The donations were part of aid provided by the government in the first half of 2022 to seven Ukrainian hospitals totaling US$5.8 million, the ministry said.
Lviv has become a hub for treating and rehabilitating injured military personnel and civilians since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
More than 16,000 injured Ukrainians, including children, have been treated at Unbroken since then, the center says on its Web site.
Sadovyi and his delegation arrived in Taiwan on Thursday and are scheduled to stay until tomorrow.
On Friday, the group attended a luncheon hosted by Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), where the two sides discussed the ongoing war and the prospects of the eastern European nation, as well as opportunities for more exchanges between Ukraine and Taiwan, according to the ministry release.
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