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Croatian Telecom Donates 4 Million Kuna to Clinic for Infectious Diseases

By 16 April 2020

The coronavirus crisis has seen many a Croatian company provide generous donations to various hospitals and other health institutions up and down the country. From INA to HS Produkt, the desire for hospitals fighting the virus head on to have the proper equipment to do so has brought out the best in many companies wanting to help procure respirators and other items. Croatian Telecom is yet another.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 15th of April, 2020, Croatian Telecom (Hrvatski Telekom) has generously donated a massive four million kuna to the ''Dr. Fran Mihaljevic'' Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb to help them in the ongoing and difficult fight against the spread of the new coronavirus, the company stated on Wednesday.

''With this donation to the ''Dr. Fran Mihaljevic'' Clinic for Infectious Diseases, whose experts have been working on the suppression of the [coronavirus] epidemic since the very first appearance of the coronavirus in the Republic of Croatia, we wanted to contribute and support their further efforts,'' read a statement on the donation provided by Croatian Telecom.

''Every day, we're witnessing the heroic deeds of doctors, nurses, medical professionals and everyone who works tirelessly for the common good during these difficult circumstances. With this donation, we'd like to contribute to the [efforts of] the ''Dr. Fran Mihaljevic'' Clinic for Infectious Diseases, which was chosen because it is an institution that has been on the front line of defense since day one and, and we're all indebted to its engagement,'' said the Chairman of the Board of Croatian Telecom, Kostas Nebis.

The now very well known and widely celebrated director the ''Dr. Fran Mihaljevic'' Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Alemka Markotic, said on the occasion that this generous donation would provide for even better conditions for the treatment of patients in the phase of the most intense fight against the spread of COVID-19.

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