Croatia's state-owned oil company Ina said on Wednesday that they would donate 1.4 million kuna (€185,000) to health care institutions this year, as they are "aware of the exceptional circumstances that the system is faced with due to the coronavirus pandemic," state agency Hina reported, citing the company's press release.

In the wake of last year’s earthquakes which hit the area around the towns of Petrinja and Sisak in December, Ina had donated 500,000 kuna (€66,000) to the Sisak General Hospital, and an additional 900,000 kuna (€120,000) to “other institutions,” Hina said.

Ina now reportedly plans to donate 150,000 (€20,000) each to the oncology department of the Hospital for Children’s Diseases in Zagreb, and to the Clinical Hospital Centre (KBC) in Rijeka, as well as 100,000 (€13,200) each to KBC Osijek, the tissue and cell bank at the Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Zagreb, the Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb, the Cardiology Clinic in Split, and “two civil society associations.” Hina did not report which ones.

The Sisak Health Care Centre and the Special Children’s Hospital in Gornja Bistra will also receive 50,000 kuna (€6,600) each.

The donations are meant to “improve diagnostics, help procure new equipment, and improve accommodation for patients, as well as working conditions for medical workers,” the press release carried by Hina said.

In addition to cash donations, these hospitals will also get a total of 500 litres of Ina’s disinfectant Dezinol, which was developed by the company during the pandemic.

Ina, whose largest single shareholder is Hungary’s national oil firm Mol, which controls close to 50 percent of the company, also added that they had invested 6.5 million kuna (€860,000) in healthcare in Croatia “over the last ten years.”

(€1 = 7.56 kuna)