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WHO raises attacks on Ukraine’s health network to 30, with 12 dead

WHO raises attacks on Ukraine’s health network to 30, with 12 dead

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine On February 24 there have been at least 30 attacks on the health network in that country, in which there have been 12 deaths and 34 injuries, the World Health Organization (WHO)which considers these actions a violation of international law.

Of these attacks, at least 23 affected health facilities, five vehicles such as ambulances, nine health personnel and five patients, detailed a new WHO report on the conflict.

The WHO adds that 34 hospitals have suffered damage since the beginning of the Russian offensive, and warns that some 316 health facilities, including 159 hospital centers, are close to the front lines or where control has recently passed from one side to another. .

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned this week that attacks on the health network constitute violations of the Geneva Conventions, which protect the neutrality of health workers and infrastructure during armed conflict.

The WHO warns on the other hand that the war has increased the risk in Ukraine of transmission of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, measles, polio or tuberculosis (the latter with a high incidence in the country before the war), as well as of mental and psychosocial problems derived from stress.

The organization also calls for special attention to the 80,000 women it estimates will give birth in Ukraine over the next three months.

The WHO has earmarked US$5.2 million from its emergency fund to finance its relief operations in Ukraine.

It calculates, however, that it will require an additional 45 million to pay for its operations in Ukraine in the next three months (of which it has only received 7%), to which another 12.5 million should be added to help the refugee populations in the neighbor countries.

Source: Gestion

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