A1 provides Belarusian healthcare professionals with unlimited mobile communication and free work smartphones in preventing the spread of COVID-19

A1, a provider of telecom, ICT and content services, will provide Belarusian healthcare professionals engaged in preventing the spread of COVID-19 with smartphones and free work mobile communication in order to solve urgent working tasks and ensure information exchange. It is planned to use communication sets in the hottest areas where patients with the coronavirus receive treatment, i.e. in intensive care units, departments of infectious diseases, emergency medical services, and in laboratories where COVID-19 tests are performed. Such an approach will allow to minimize both the use of personal mobile phones and the risk of the spread of the infection outside infected areas.

Belarusian healthcare professionals in all regions all over the country will be provided with 500 communication sets consisting of new A1 Alpha smartphones, as well as SIM cards with unlimited calls to all networks and unlimited Internet access. These communication sets will be used by physicians and hospital employees as real-time working tools to solve a wide range of tasks for coordinating the treatment of patients with the COVID-19 infection, including video conferencing with the Republican Consultative Group on issues relating to the treatment of patients positive for COVID-19.

According to the agreement between A1 and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, the Republican Center for Organization of Medical Response State Institution will act as a single beneficiary of charitable assistance, which will distribute the communication sets among healthcare institutions in Minsk, as well as in all regions all over the country.

"We are grateful for timely assistance provided by A1 to the Belarusian healthcare service. An important role is played by, among others, the provision of hospitals and polyclinics with mobile communication against the backdrop of preventing the spread of the coronavirus infection. I am convinced that the communication sets provided by A1 will make it even more possible for healthcare professionals to improve work communication and information exchange in the current circumstances", says Eduard Valchuk, Chief Medical Officer of the Republican Center for Organization of Medical Response State Institution.

Earlier, A1 provided Belarusian citizens with free calls to hot lines for issues relating to the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 and rendered charitable assistance to the Minsk City Clinical Infectious Hospital.