Kyiv emergency medical personnel will receive additional pay for working during shelling

The Standing Committee on Health Care, Family, Social, and Veterans’ Policy has approved amendments to the city’s targeted program, which propose introducing additional payments to emergency medical personnel for working during air raid alerts and at sites where the consequences of Russian attacks are being addressed.

Payments will be made for call-outs during air raid alerts and for work directly at the site of an attack, with a higher rate provided when both of these factors are present. In addition, the authorities will fund the purchase of specialized protective clothing for emergency response teams, and in hospitals where military medical commissions operate, they plan to install walk-through metal detectors to enhance security.

The amount of the payments will depend on the duration of the shift or the length of the call-out. Tetyana Mostipan, director of the city’s Department of Health, noted that providing financial support to medical workers who save lives at disaster sites and risk being caught in repeated shelling is a matter of fairness.

Source: Kyiv Department of Health.

On the morning of September 23, Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv using strike drones. Hits and falling debris were recorded in several districts of the capital; fires broke out, and there are fatalities and injuries. 

In Kyiv, the number of people injured as a result of the Russian drone attack on September 23 has risen to 41, with at least two people killed.