The World Well being Group (WHO) has verified 18 assaults on well being care amenities in Ukraine thus far, Director-Basic Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned Wednesday.
To this point, WHO has verified 18 assaults on well being amenities, well being staff and ambulances, together with ten deaths and 16 accidents,” Tedros mentioned in a media briefing.
“Greater than 2 million folks have left Ukraine and WHO is supporting neighboring international locations to supply well being take care of refugees, most of whom are girls and youngsters. A few of the primary well being challenges we see are hypothermia, and frostbite, respiratory ailments, lack of therapy for heart problems and most cancers, and psychological well being points. WHO personnel and have been deployed to neighboring international locations to supply psychological well being and psychosocial assist.”
Tedros mentioned the group has delivered 81 metric tons of provides to the area and is engaged on establishing a pipeline to get provides to well being amenities.
“Yesterday, we delivered 5 metric tons of medical provides to Kyiv to assist surgical take care of 150 trauma sufferers and different provides to handle a spread of well being circumstances for 45,000 folks for a month. Extra provides can be distributed as we speak,” he mentioned.
Dr. Adelheid Marschang, senior emergency officer, mentioned “remarkably” Covid-19 surveillance within the nation stays in place and instances look like reducing.
“Now we have to say remarkably, Ukraine has maintained its Covid-19 surveillance and response system. And now we have famous within the final week 731 Covid-19 deaths, the numbers of instances appear to lower,” she mentioned, noting that the group can be monitoring the danger of unfold of measles and polio within the disaster.
“The fact is that the circumstances we see in Ukraine are the worst attainable elements for the amplification and unfold of infectious illness,” mentioned Dr. Mike Ryan, director of the WHO Well being Emergencies Programme.
“It would not matter if it is Covid, would not matter if it is polio, would not matter if it is measles, would not matter if it’s cholera. You place that many individuals in desperation on the transfer, girls and youngsters packed collectively, folks in basements. Individuals burdened, folks not consuming, not sleeping. These are the circumstances which immune techniques are weak. Individuals’s defenses are low, and infectious ailments can rip via populations like this,” Ryan mentioned.
The one actual answer to this example is peace,” Tedros mentioned.
“WHO continues to name on the Russian Federation to decide to a peaceable decision to this disaster and to permit secure, unimpeded entry to humanitarian help for these in want. A peaceable decision is feasible, and that is true in each battle and humanitarian disaster to which WHO is responding world wide,” the director normal mentioned.