DTEK Odesa Grids provides stable power supply for COVID-19 patients

Thermal power generation03 December 2021

DTEK Odesa Grids recognizes that a stable power supply to hospitals treating patients with COVID-19 is crucial. The company has checked electrical equipment that powers 107 medical facilities in Odesa and the region, including 31 of them that treat patients with COVID-19. The Distribution System Operator 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 Odesa Grids. Our energy workers did repairs at power lines and substations, provided backup power sources where required, and cleared vegetation near power lines to avoid power failures for hospitals. This is the third check of medical facilities, which the company has initiated since the beginning of the pandemic to avoid an emergency power outage,” says Oleksandr Fomenko, General Director for DTEK Odesa Grids.

Uninterrupted power supply in medical facilities also depends on the in-hospital network health. DTEK Odesa Grids asks the heads of health care centers, local authorities in Odesa and the region 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 spot in a medical facility are connected to oxygen at home. DTEK Odesa Grids recognizes this, and thus adjusts the routine maintenance schedules where seriously ill patients, connected to oxygen, live.

“We understand 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 Oleksandr Fomenko. “Scheduled maintenances are an important part of our work. We do them to improve the networks and prevent emergency power outages. Now we are adjusting our business processes, which is not convenient for the company, but is vital for people."

DTEK Odesa Grids is 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 us regarding such cooperation, please, fill out a form on the DTEK Odesa Grids website.

DTEK Odesa Grids already has a successful example of such cooperation. In October 2021, the company began to work with the Monsters Corporation charitable foundation and the Odesa City Council health department. Thus, the company receives information about people connected to oxygen concentrators at home, and their addresses daily. As of December 1, there were 736 such addresses in the Odesa region, and consequently, the company adjusted the routine maintenance schedule there.

DTEK Odesa Grids asks local authorities to spread this information through specialized services in Odesa and the Odesa region among healthcare facilities, charitable and public organizations that have information about patients connected to oxygen at home.