During December 9-11 a delegation of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine headed by First Deputy Minister O. Komarida visited the Netherlands. The Ukrainian delegation held meetings in The Hague with representatives of the Dutch Agency for Entrepreneurship (RVO), the NGO Task Force Health Care and nine member companies interested in implementing medical projects in Ukraine.

In addition, during the visit, extended talks were held with Royal Philips at the company's headquarters in Best and Eindhoven, during which the participants discussed a wide range of issues related to the introduction of innovative digital technologies for the modernization of health services of Ukraine. Following the talks, the First Deputy Minister O. Komarida and the Vice President of Royal Philips J.-W. Scheijgrond signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.

In the context of the President's order to build modern hospitals in Ukraine, the delegation visited the Erasmus MC University Clinic in Rotterdam, during which representatives of the Ministry of Health talked with a group of architects from EGM Architecten who designed the modern clinic and discussed possible ways of cooperation.