Kherson Ambulance Service Wins Lawsuit for Unpaid Fuel Costs

The Kherson Emergency Medical Service won a lawsuit against a fuel supplier. The company must now pay the medical facility more than 755,000 hryvnias.

This is stated in the ruling of the Kyiv Commercial Court. 

According to court records, at the beginning of the year, the regional emergency medical services center entered into a contract with the company “Trading House ‘DEVON-INVEST’” for the supply of diesel fuel. Medical staff paid the full amount of 4.8 million hryvnias for 90,000 liters of fuel. In return, they received special vouchers for refueling ambulances.

However, the facility was unable to use part of the paid-for diesel—amounting to 755,000 hryvnias—because the vouchers had expired. According to the terms of the contract, the parties had agreed on a specific provision allowing unused vouchers that were about to expire to be replaced with new ones. The supplier ignored requests from hospital management to fulfill this condition.

Due to the failure to fulfill contractual obligations, medical professionals in Kherson filed a lawsuit. The court fully granted the claim, noting that the vouchers are merely a means of obtaining goods, not the goods themselves. Since the supplier did not deliver the diesel fuel, it is obligated to refund the funds.

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