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With the outbreak of full-scale war, Dnipro hospitals were the first to admit seriously wounded individuals. Operating theatres are open around the clock and all highly qualified specialists are involved. The number of lives saved could have been increased only with extra equipment that increases the range of care available, reduces surgery time and doctors' workload. Interpipe has been actively involved in equipping hospitals with such equipment. Among other things, the company purchased a mobile C-arc X-ray system, an automated anaesthetic station, a bronchofibroscope, pneumatic aspirators and other necessary equipment. Hospitals are also provided with equipment for physical rehabilitation after injuries.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Interpipe has been providing hospitals in the Dnipropetrovsk region with supplies: artificial blood products, anaesthetics, antiseptics, infusion solutions, sutures, antibiotics, bandages, etc. The company's specialists have kept in touch with the doctors around the clock and met their current needs throughout the day. Almost 29,000 syringes and catheters were delivered, as well as 19,000 sterile bandages and plasters. In addition to medical supplies, the hospitals received drinking water, hygiene products, medical stretchers, folding beds for hospital bomb shelters, clothes and more. 

In addition to hospitals in the region, Interpipe also patronises medical units of the military. The greatest demand for such assistance was at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. In the first weeks, the company provided the military with targeted medicines and medical supplies. After the stabilisation of the army unit supply, efforts were focused on purchasing portable equipment, including oxygen concentrators, ECG machines, medical cabinets for sterilising tools, dental equipment and coagulators.

Repairs and reconstruction of premises significantly increase the volume and quality of medical care provided by hospitals in the region. Work is planned at the request of medical institutions. Part of the work is to restore the damage caused by shelling. Among other things, we insulated the facade, repaired the roof, replaced damaged windows and doors and reconstructed operating theatres, wards and corridors. 

In 2020–2021, Interpipe purchased more than UAH 63 million worth of equipment and materials for 25 medical institutions in the region and the country to deal with COVID-19. 
In total, Interpipe helped purchase the following for medical institutions:
– 10 lung ventilators
– 1 automatic nucleic acid extraction station (for PCR diagnostics)
– over 150 oxygen concentrators
– 3 medical gas analysers
– 10 electrocardiographs
– 350 bactericidal irradiators and recirculators
– 250 medical beds
– 107,500 respirators and medical masks
– 77,500 biological protection suits, isolation gowns and medical aprons
– 169,000 gloves, medical caps and shoe covers
– 4,000 oxygen masks and other equipment and materials

To change the attitude of modern youth to working professions and eradicate the stereotype of hard manual labour at a plant, Interpipe invites Dnipro schoolchildren and students to career guidance tours. The tour showcases all stages of railway wheel and pipe production.

The company is reconstructing labour rooms in Dnipro schools and building modern mechatronics laboratories. In the labs, schoolchildren practice using lathes, drilling, milling and sharpening machines. All equipment purchased for future specialists is new and modern. 
In the mechatronics class, students learn to work with mini-copies of industrial equipment. During the lesson, children assemble robots and program them to perform certain functions, such as delivering cargo or distributing parts.

In Dnipro, the company modernised Vocational School No. 2 and opened a modern machine tool workshop. This set a kind of precedent in vocational education. The new workshop was set up from scratch, with furniture and computers purchased and, most importantly, modern software-controlled lathes, milling machines and sawmills installed to replace the old ones. They perform complex and very precise work. The machine tool workshop is capable of training 150 specialists per year. 30 of them are vocational school students and 9th grade graduates. Another 120 people can take advanced training courses under an accelerated programme.

Interpipe invested in the construction of 2 mechatronics laboratories at the Dnipro Polytechnic National Technical University. Both are fully equipped with German equipment, which is an industrial production simulator. These include conveyors, robots, automated warehouses, sorting and metalworking lines, etc. It is used for classes for schoolchildren and for teaching mechatronics to university, vocational school and college students. These laboratories allow students to put their programming skills into practice and experiment with devices: small replicas of those already in operation at Interpipe's plants.
 

In 2024, the free educational project WOW Physics was launched in Dnipro for high school students. Under its auspices, teachers of Dnipro Polytechnic conduct open interactive classes for students in mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, electricity and other areas of physics. All classes, in addition to theory and problem solving, include demonstrations and experiments. For this purpose, Interpipe purchased the appropriate equipment to enhance the university's existing facilities.

Teacher training is another consistent step in Interpipe's effort to develop the technical education ecosystem for young people in Dnipro. After all, in order to teach children technical disciplines, teachers first need to master the cutting-edge science themselves. Dnipro Polytechnic National Technical University is helping with this. The university systematically teaches mechatronics to teachers of schools, lycea and gymnasia in Dnipro, so that they can pass cutting-edge knowledge to their students. At first, teachers take a lecture course on theory, then practice and then they showcase their programmes.

Since 2017, Interpipe has been reconstructing Nikopol city's embankment in stages. Over this time, paving stones were laid, granite steps to the monument were restored, flower beds were arranged and lighting as well as benches were installed. In 2022, the project was suspended due to systematic shelling from the occupied city of Enerhodar.

In 2020–2022, Interpipe reconstructed 6 public gardens on the Left Bank of the Dnipro at the initiative of community activists. The company's funds were used to create comfortable pedestrian areas, build children's playgrounds and install benches.

In 2020–2021, Interpipe became a regional partner of the Million Trees in 24 Hours Ukrainian nationwide environmental campaign. In addition to supporting the campaign, in autumn and spring, the company planted more than 1,350 trees at its production assets and in the cities where it operates. Interpipe employees volunteered to do this work.