Kiev, June 24, 2020
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The families of more than 40 doctors who died from the coronavirus will soon receive substantial help from a Ukrainian charitable foundation connected with the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
As the non-factional People’s Deputy Vadim Novinsky announced on Sunday, his charitable foundation of the Holy Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos will allocate $3,370 (100,000 hryvnia) each to the families of 43 doctors who have died during the pandemic.
Deacon and People's Deputy Vadim Novinsky. Photo: Facebook Deputy Novinsky has proven himself a great supporter and defender of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and his charitable foundation has donated generously to hospitals during the pandemic. He was also recently ordained a deacon by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine.
Novinsky’s announcement came on Medical Workers’ Day, celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June.
“This year, as never before, your work attracts the special attention of ordinary people. You are the ones who give hope and those who are saving people during the worst pandemic in recent human history,” Novinsky wrote, honoring the sacrifices of medical workers.
“Thanks to your labor, thousands of Ukrainians have already been cured of this dangerous disease. Thanks to your activity, the death rate from the coronavirus in our country remains one of the lowest in the world,” he added.
Novinsky himself has recovered from the coronavirus.
“On this day, I would like to wish you good health, peace and prosperity,” he writes.
And, “it is impossible not to remember those of your colleagues who gave their lives in the fight against the coronavirus. To date, the sad martyrology counts 43 medical workers who died at their combat post. Our fund ‘In Honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos’ has decided to allocate 100,000 hryvnia to the families of each of the 43 doctors who died due to the COVID-19 disease.”
“This is a small fraction of what can be done today for their inconsolable relatives,” he writes.
