Subject: RE: focal points for COVID-19 project
From: Volkan Cetinkaya <[email-masked]>
To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>, Lika Gamgebeli <[email-masked]>, Maddalena Honorati <[email-masked]>, Iryna Postolovska <[email-masked]>, Adrien Arnoux Dozol <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 23:10:06 +0000

Dear Tamar,

I hope this email find you well!  Have you had a chance to discuss implementation arrangement and investment priorities during your meeting on Friday?

Could you please help us by answering a few questions regarding Georgia’s approach to working with the private sector for COVID-19?

Would the Ministry consider using Bank Facilitated Procurement (BFP) among other alternative procurement options? Our procurement specialist Tanvir informed us about this opportunity,
if the Ministry is interested in, we can share the BFP request.  For some critical equipment such as ventilators, we heard that waiting period is quite long.

Is the government already contracting with private facilities to deliver COVID-19 services or are there plans to do so? During the first call, if we recall correctly, you told us that
an assessment of ICU/ventilator capacity at private facilities showed that there was sufficient supply of ventilators in Georgia to meet even the high-infection scenarios. If there is indeed sufficient availability of ventilators and ICUs, perhaps it may not
be necessary to purchase additional ventilators for the public sector. The situation may differ by region – for example, if there are fewer private facilities with ICU/ventilator capacity near Abkhazia, there is a strong justification for investing to equip
Rukhi hospital. It would be great if we could have more information on this. Is the private sector willing to provide such services?

If the private sector will be involved in the COVID-19 response, will the government procure personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies/consumables and distribute them
to private facilities or will private facilities do this on their own?

Could you also please provide the total number of existing (fully equipped) ICU beds in the public and private sectors?

Best,

Volkan

From: Tamar Gabunia

Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:47 AM

To: Volkan Cetinkaya ; [email-masked]

Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili ; Lika Gamgebeli

Subject: RE: focal points for COVID-19 project

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Dear Volkan

I hope all is well with you. May I kindly ask to keep me in the CC list on correspondence to focal points. This will make the communication faster.

Just to let you know, I will be meeting with the Vice Prime Minister and MoF representatives this morning to discuss the implementation arrangements and investment priorities. Will get back to you with this later
today.

პატივისცემით,

თამარ გაბუნია

მინისტრის პირველი მოადგილე

Sincerely,

Tamar Gabunia,
MD, MPH

First Deputy Minister

From: Volkan Cetinkaya [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: 10 April, 2020 04:26

To: Ketevan Goginashvili

Cc: Adrien Arnoux Dozol; Alicia C. Marguerie; Darejan Kapanadze; Djamshid Iriskulov; Fabiola Altimari; Gabriel Francis; Iryna Postolovska; Jelena Lukic; Maddalena Honorati; David Jijelava;
[email-masked]; Nino Ramishvili; Parviz Ahmadov; Prachi Shrikant Tadsare; Roberto Claudio Sormani; Sophia V. Georgieva; Tamar Tsenteradze; Tanvir Hossain

Subject: focal points for COVID-19 project

Dear Keti,

I hope this email finds you well!

Could you please us identify colleagues in the ministry who can help us with specific assessments needed for preparation our project.

Specifically, focal points for :

Procurement

Financial management

Stakeholder engagement plan

Environmental and social safeguards

DM Tamar Gabunia shared the attached note with us. Do you have more information about the
new building procurement plan for the Infectious Disease Hospital? Is it already identified? If so, where is it? Is it a public or private building?

Best,

Volkan