Lukoil Overseas (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lukoil) takes part and co-invests in a major social project in the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire building a Mother-Child hospital...The building is designed for 150 beds and will include an in-patient clinic consisting of obstetric, laboratory diagnosis, medical, infectious disease, surgical (with 6 surgery blocks)...A special area of the hospital activity will be prevention and treatment of particularly dangerous diseases, such as cancer, Buruli ulcer and AIDS. Lukoil's investment at the stage of the hospital design and construction will exceed $400,000. The company intends to make a valuable contribution into fitting out the hospital with modern medical equipment in the future. Lukoil has repeatedly accorded beneficent aid to medical institutions of Cote d'Ivoire in the past. In particular, the company purchased and delivered to the country's Ministry of public health a major package of medical equipment and medicines, as well as several ambulance vehicles in late 2011.