The catastrophic repercussions of the war on Ukraine’s hospitals (Abdullah Tefegi / Anadolu Agency)
Three affiliated agencies invited for the United NationsOn Sunday, we called for an immediate halt to attacks on health care facilities in the country UkraineThese attacks kill and injure patients and staff, and deprive thousands of health care, it said.
و .ثارت Raid on a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol, and led to the deaths of three people, international outrage, and allegations of war crimes. Hospitals, including a cancer treatment center and an ophthalmology clinic in the southern coastal city of Mykolaiv, were bombed Friday night.
In a joint statement, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, and the executive directors of the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF” and the United Nations Population Fund, called for the protection of health care facilities from all forms of violence.
The statement said that attacks on health care facilities and services since the beginning of the war led to at least 12 deaths and 34 injuries, and affected the provision of health services. “Today, we call for an immediate halt to all attacks on health care facilities in Ukraine.”
“These horrific attacks are killing and injuring patients and health workers, destroying vital health infrastructure, and forcing thousands to forgo access to health services when they are badly needed,” the three directors said.
The three agencies added that they are “working with partners to expand life-saving services and support the response to emergency health needs.”
Russian forces have bombed more than a dozen hospitals since invading Ukraine on February 24, according to the World Health Organization.
Doctors Without Borders deploys more than a hundred people on the ground in Ukraine, and has succeeded in opening a mobile hospital in the city of Vinnytsia (west) to treat an innumerable number of people displaced by the fighting, but the main challenge lies in the very large number of injured in the areas witnessing fights.
(Archyde.com, AFP)