EU gives first share of 5m euros' aid to Kosovo

The aid was accepted by Arben Vitita, the acting minister of health, in the spaces of the University Clinical Centre in Pristina.

This aid, carried in 5 trucks, includes over 1.4 million different medical protective gloves, 4 thousand shields for the face, 3 thousand protective glasses, 4 thousand liters of hand disinfectant, 10,000 sets of one and 50 boxes for transport of laboratory samples.

“This is where we can provide concrete support to the European Union for people in need and health professionals, those on the front lines of this pandemic in the struggle to save people's lives”, said Ambassador Apostolova after delivery of equipment.

Other medical supplies will include ventilators, infusion pumps, ambulance vehicles, pulse oximeters, hospital beds, patient monitoring, defibrillators, electrocardigraphers, masks, tests, test scores, drugs and other necessary items.

In addition to this direct assistance to the health sector, the EU is also preparing about 63m euros as the medium-term ministerial assistance measure for socioeconomic grants, as well as about 100m euros in loans as macroeconomic assistance to Kosovo.