US Is Paying $1.7 Billion To Health Care Workers... In Ukraine
“Ukraine is getting an additional $1.7 billion in assistance from the U.S. government and the World Bank to pay the salaries of its beleaguered health care workers and provide other essential services,” Politico reports Tuesday.
The healthcare funds come as Ukraine’s minister of health Viktor Liashko is sounding the alarm over collapsing medical and hospital infrastructure and availability, describing that paying health workers’ salaries is growing more difficult each month “due to the overwhelming burden of war.” As cited in Politico:
“$1.7 billion is not just yet another financial support; it is an investment that makes us a step closer to victory,” Liashko said in a statement.
The funds are being funneled through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Treasury Dept., and the World Bank.
“This aid will help Ukraine’s democratic government provide essential services for the people of Ukraine,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
USAID has so far given $4 billion in budgetary support to Kiev as the Ukrainian government struggles to pay civic workers and essential service personnel their salaries and keep up pensions.
Summarizing these efforts while unveiling the new health worker aid, USAID Administrator Samantha Power asserted that Putin’s “assault on Ukraine’s public services continues, the United States is rushing in with financial support to help the government keep the lights on, provide essential services to innocent citizens and pay the health care workers who are providing lifesaving support on the frontlines.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-paying-17-billion-health-care-workers-ukraine
Yet, average Americans are going broke, veterans are living on the streets and the homeless population just keeps growing.
What a messed up picture Pedo Peter is painting.