The fifth president of Ukraine (2014-2019), leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko presented a plan for Ukraine’s exit from the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in which he demands to stop the misuse of the Coronavirus Fight Fund and allocate all funds to provide medical facilities, insurance of medical workers, massive free testing of citizens and support for entrepreneurs, according to the website of the political force.
“We demand that funds be paid to the families of all medical workers who gave their lives, protecting us. We are talking about 238 families. We have been fighting for the insurance of medical workers since March, when I signed the relevant bill,” Poroshenko said, urging to provide in full 300% co-payments promised to medical workers.
The leader of European Solidarity noted the importance of ensuring retraining of physicians and avoiding a critical shortage of medical personnel with a further increase in the number of patients.
Poroshenko also demanded that all departmental hospitals be opened for general access, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine, Ukrzaliznytsia, the State Administration of Affairs. “The President’s Office and the State Administration of Affairs are lying when they say that ‘Feofaniya’ is now available to everyone (…) When I was sick, I did not take a place in ‘Feofaniya,’ there are people who need it more,” he said.
The fifth president also noted the importance of extending the tax credit for individuals to 2021 and the peculiarities of taxation of legal entities that provide charitable free assistance to healthcare facilities in the fight against COVID-19. “We propose to deduct the expenses of families for tests and treatment of COVID-19 from the taxable base of individuals,” Poroshenko said.
According to him, in the coming days, European Solidarity will present a separate plan to support individual entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses, who are most affected by quarantine measures. “All the solutions we propose must be taken immediately, this week, tomorrow in the Verkhovna Rada,” Poroshenko said.
The politician turned to incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky: “Here is a ready-made plan for you. If you do not come up with your own, take and do someone else’s (…) We all need to hold out until the vaccine, about which there is optimistic news.”
