Charitable Foundation refuses to transfer funds raised to Okhmatdyt Hospital: what’s going on
16 August 2024 20:49
The Okhmatdyt Charitable Foundation will not transfer the money raised to the official accounts of the hospital, which suffered from a Russian missile attack on 8 July. This was announced by the director of the Okhmatdyt hospital, Volodymyr Zhovnir, on his page on his on his Facebook page on Friday, 16 August, reports [Kommersant].
According to him, the charitable foundation “Okhmatdyt – Healthy Childhood”, which received donations for the restoration of the hospital, “does not plan” to transfer the funds raised to the hospital’s official accounts.
“The fact that the foundation contains the name of the Ohmatdyt National Children’s Hospital in its name was an additional confirmation for the benefactors that the funds raised would be used for their intended purpose and in no way be used for purposes unrelated to the reconstruction process. As a result, the Foundation received a record amount in a few days. And we had no doubt that these funds would be used to rebuild Okhmatdyt. We could not even imagine such a thing,” Zhovnir wrote.
According to the hospital director, starting from the first public scandals and a request to transfer money for the hospital’s reconstruction from the foundation’s account to the hospital’s account, their communication with the foundation began to deteriorate.
Today, Volodymyr Zhovnir has publicly called on the charity to transfer all the money raised. The hospital is now considering severing relations with the foundation due to their “unfair actions”.
What the CF “Okhmatdyt – Healthy Childhood” says
On the the website of the website states that all the money raised will remain on its accounts. And the foundation is ready to pay for any need of the hospital: medical equipment or renovation of buildings, “only official requests and designation are required. As it has always been.”
“We are asking for legal grounds to transfer funds to treasury accounts without a purpose. As this may now entail criminal liability,” the charity said.
The charity even posted a letter from the National Police of Ukraine on its website requesting a pre-trial investigation and copies of documents.
A new scandal with the Okhmatdyt hospital: how society reacted
Politicians have already reacted to the new scandal with the children’s hospital.
MP Iryna Gerashchenko notedthat:
“Today we are witnessing a public conflict and an incomprehensible political game when the hospital director claims that he was misled and that no one from the hospital has anything to do with the foundation. It’s a shame that makes me sick to my stomach. The reaction of law enforcement agencies must be urgent!”
The MP added that the society now wants to know how it was possible to collect hundreds of millions from partners and society without guaranteeing their control by the hospital and what will be the reaction and actions of the Recovery Council, which was created by the Ministry of Health.
He made his opinion on the incident on the incident was also published by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko.
“UAH 378 million is still on their accounts. At the same time, this Fund now says that they are waiting for some targeted needs and grounds for transferring money. And I’d like to remind you of the tender where a contractor was selected as the winner at inflated prices, but then everyone “amicably” cancelled it and promised to hold a new one. So what’s the new tender?” Goncharenko wrote.
