DTEK Donetsk Grids ensures stable power supply for COVID-19 patients

Thermal power generation06 December 2021

DTEK Donetsk Grids recognizes that a stable power supply to hospitals that treat patients with COVID-19 is crucial. The company has checked electrical equipment that powers 30 medical facilities in the region. Potential risks of emergency outages were eliminated in 12 healthcare centers. The company also adjusts the routine maintenance schedules for customers who are connected to oxygen concentrators at home.

“DTEK is a reliable partner of the society. Uninterruptible power supply in the context of combating the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the focus areas of DTEK Donetsk Grids. Our specialists did the maintenance at power lines and substations, provided backup power sources where needed, cleared the vegetation near power lines to avoid failures in 12 hospitals. This is the second check that we initiated to avoid blackouts in medical facilities with intensive care. In general, our specialists checked the power grids that power 30 healthcare centers that treat patients with COVID-19 in the region,” says Oleksii Degtiarev, Head of DTEK Donetsk Grids.

Thus, the maintenance was completed in 7 hospitals in the Pokrovsky district, 3 in Bakhmutsky, 1 in Kramatorsky and 1 in Volnovakhsky districts. As of November 2021, the power grids operated by DTEK Donetsk Grids fully comply with the technical standards for the power supply quality. However, the uninterrupted power supply in medical facilities also depends on the in-hospital networks health. We ask the heads of medical facilities to check their internal power network and promptly eliminate equipment malfunctions, if any.

At the same time, the new wave of the pandemic led to situations when there are not enough beds in medical facilities available to treat patients in serious condition. Those who do not have a bed in a medical facility are connected to oxygen at home. DTEK Donetsk Grids recognizes this, and thus adjusts the routine maintenance schedules where seriously ill patients, connected to oxygen, live.

“We recognize that for seriously ill patients connected to medical equipment at home, a stable supply of electricity is worth the weight of their lives. That is why we are temporarily changing our routine maintenance schedules where people need uninterrupted power supply,” says Oleksii Degtiarev. “Scheduled maintenance is an important part of our work. We do them to improve the networks and prevent power outages. Now we are adjusting our business processes, which is inconvenient for the company, but vital for people."

DTEK Donetsk Grids is currently collecting addresses of patients who need an uninterrupted power supply at home. We are looking to cooperate with hospitals, city and regional administrations, charitable and public organizations that have information about patients connected to oxygen at home for cooperation.

To contact the company regarding such cooperation, please, fill out a form on the DTEK Donetsk Grids website.

DTEK Donetsk Grids asks local authorities to share this information through the Donetsk region specialized services with medical facilities, charitable and public organizations that have information about patients connected to oxygen at home.