When the first case of the coronavirus in Montenegro was registered in March 2020, the European Union reacted immediately. It promptly signed a contract for urgent procurement of medical equipment, worth 3 million euros. 100 ventilators, 10 mobile digital X-rays and a large amount of medical protective equipment were procured. In the meantime, vaccines, other medical devices and equipment were donated, the economy and vulnerable groups were helped, so that assistance grew to a total of 116 million euros the EU donated to Montenegro to fight the coronavirus.“The last two years have been difficult for all of us and I know how much the economy, companies and citizens have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Union has stood by you from the beginning, and we will continue to do so,” said the European Union Ambassador to Montenegro, Ms Oana Kristina Popa.Most of the equipment that arrived in the first months of 2020 was donated to the Clinical Centre of Montenegro (KCCG). KCCG’s Director Ljiljana Radulović told the EU Info Centre that the institution had received donations worth over 4 million euros in the past two years, intended to fight the pandemic.“I will remind you that during 2020, the Clinical Centre was closed for six months for everyone who was not a COVID or an urgent patient. But during 2021 it remained fully open, non-stop. In that regard, we owe our gratitude, among others, to the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro, which helped us with donations to build the stable foundations, thanks to which we successfully weathered the crisis,“ says Radulović.
