Support Activities in Disaster Affected Areas

In March 2022, we donated total amount of ¥30 million (approx. 220 thousand euros) to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to support those who are affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and those who have been evacuated to the surrounding areas. We received a letter of appreciation from UNICEF and the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon from the Japanese government.

In June 2022, at the request of the Embassy of Ukraine in Japan, we donated patient monitors and ventilators to medical institutions in Ukraine through Nihon Kohden Europe GmbH.

As a manufacturer of medical equipment, the Nihon Kohden Group will continue to work together as a group to provide the necessary support and cooperation. We will also

Fourteen patient monitors have been installed in nine medical institutions, and eight ventilators have been installed in seven medical institutions in Ukraine by January 2023. The remaining patient monitors and ventilators will be installed in each medical institution sequentially.

In March 2020, we donated medical devices to medical institutions in Wuhan and Shanghai to support measures to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

We have received the following message from Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, one of recipients of our donations. They said, "Huashan hospital is a designated hospital for COVID-19. When the number of COVID-19 patients increased rapidly, we were able to save more lives thanks to the donation of patient monitors by Nihon Kohden. We know that a lot of Japanese institutions and people have donated masks and protective clothing not only to us but also to other regions throughout China. We would like to express our cordial gratitude to Japan."
As a medical equipment manufacturer, Nihon Kohden is doing our best to support medical workers in fighting the COVID-19 outbreak.

In September 2018, a major earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia caused widespread damage, including the collapse of hospitals and many other structures in the provincial capital Palu, which was near the epicenter.
At the congress of the Japan Epilepsy Society held in Yokohama in October 2018, local doctors from Anutapura Hospital, the core epilepsy hospital in Sulawesi, reported that they were no longer able to treat epilepsy patients. In response to this issue, Nihon Kohden donated to Anutapura Hospital a paperless electroencephalograph (EEG) system with video camera, with the aim of supporting the immediate resumption of epilepsy care in Sulawesi.