Our charity is currently fully committed to the purchase of medical equipment used to combat the coronavirus pandemic in Poland. We established a COVID-19 Relief Fund which allows us to purchase items such as PPE for medical staff, beds for intensive care units, face masks, and ventilators.
On Tuesday, April 7th, we managed to secure an order of 50 additional beds for ICUs at isolation hospitals. This purchase rounds up the number of beds we bought to 200 units. These beds are currently en route to hospitals - first 50 beds should be delivered any day now. Another essential purchase we made on April 7th are ten medical ventilators. Ventilators are crucial when treating the most severe cases of coronavirus. Overall, as of April 7th, we ordered 47 medical ventilators for Polish hospitals, and we are currently awaiting delivery of these devices.
We are also ordering and overseeing the delivery of PPE, such as surgical masks and face shields. The first batch of 250 000 three-plier surgical masks is on its way to hospitals nationwide. We made an order for one million surgical masks, and at the moment, we are waiting for the delivery.
We already have bought equipment for over PLN 25 000 000 (over EUR 5 500 000). We signed contracts for the purchase of 200 ICU beds, 157 cardiac monitors, 47 medical ventilators, 50 000 PPE, 50 000 N95/KN95 protective masks. What is more, medical companies donated additional medical equipment in aid of our initiative: 30 infusion pumps, machine for chest compression, two pulse oximeters, and 25 ultrasonography machines.
For the eighteenth time, Jurek Owsiak, this time from the final stage on the PGE Narodowy meadows in Warsaw, opened the joyful run under the same slogan "Get Even with Diabetes". Crowds of running enthusiasts, after a five-kilometre route through the streets of Warsaw, will reach the finish line located in the same place.
Less than 60 days before the 32nd Grand Finale fundraiser, the Collection Boxes were presented during a press conference. Just this year, there were 226,000 boxes produced.
Here is the most important information about the 32nd Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. We are all in tune!
