Zagrebačka banka donated HRK 1.3 million to hospitals to help them settle medical expenses, purchase of medical equipment and repair earthquake damage. Zaba made two donations of HRK 500,000 each to the Merkur Clinical Hospital and the Dubrava Clinical Hospital, which is being converted into a primary respiratory centre for patients with more severe forms of COVID-19. The Bank also donated HRK 300,000 to the Children’s Clinic, heavily damaged in the earthquake, for medical equipment and repairs.

“Health and safety are our top priorities in these truly challenging times. Making sure the healthcare system is adequately equipped to deal with potential spreading of the disease is paramount. In addition to supporting measures we have already taken to help ensure liquidity and availability of funds, we decided to provide extra aid to the hospitals that really need it right now. We would like to thank all our healthcare professionals who are working so hard every day to help us win this battle as soon as possible”, said Romeo Collina, President of the Management Board of Zagrebačka banka.

“We are grateful for the donation, which we will use to buy aspirators and vital functions monitors for patients with severe cases of COVID-19 in intensive care. Vital functions monitors are essential in our daily work, allowing us to continually monitor the vital functions of the most severe COVID-19 patients, who are being treated at the Respiratory and Intensive Care Centre at Clinical Hospital Dubrava. We use aspirators to clean the airways of patients who are on continuous respiratory support, ie mechanical ventilation, and such treatment is not feasible without constant cleaning and hygiene of the airways. By donating the above mentioned medical equipment, you significantly help us treat the most severe COVID 19 patients.”, said Jasminka Peršec, Head of the Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care at Dubrava.

“We are so grateful to Zagrebačka banka for this donation that will help us buy devices and equipment essential to care for our critical patients in this time of crisis, when we are facing a pandemic of the coronavirus”, said Mario Starešinić, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of the Merkur Clinical Hospital.

We sincerely thank you for your financial donation to the Zagreb Children's Clinic as well as your social responsibility and sensibility during this difficult time. Unfortunately, we are affected by the earthquake and construction experts are still assessing the damage. Although we do not currently know what the amount of remediation will be, we are aware that it will be an amount that we will not be able to cover on our own”, said prof. dr. sc. Goran Roić, dr.med, adding that the donated money will be used to buy Neuro / Bio Feedback and ECG devices and to repair earthquake damage.

Donations to the most needy are part of Zagrebačka banka's social responsibility and its long-standing tradition of focus on social and economic needs of the communities we operate in. Zagrebačka banka thus joined other initiatives of the UniCredit banks in Europe against the pandemic.

The Bank will continue to actively keep up with the latest developments, always acting in everyone’s best interest and doing the right thing vis à vis all our stakeholders.