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UNDP, Lithuanian embassy to help oversee rebuilding of war-damaged Ukraine children's hospital after complaints of unfair bidding

Patients taking shelter in basement of Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital. (Photo by Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital).

Ukraine's Health Ministry appointed representatives of the UNDP, Unicef and the Embassy of Lithuania to a committee overseeing the rebuilding of a missile-struck children's hospital after complaints of poor transparency thwarted an earlier attempt at reconstruction.

Representatives of the three bodies are among the first eight members named to a 15-member panel to be formed to oversee the reconstruction of the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital, which was partially destroyed in a Russian missile attack on July 8 that killed two people and injured 30.

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