Nearly 100 dead in attacks on health centers, says WHO

Nearly 500 attacks targeted health centers in Ukraine during the first six months of the Russian invasion, announced on Wednesday August 24, theWorld Health Organization. These attacks “inadmissible”according to the head of the European branch of the WHO Hans Kluge, cost the lives of at least 98 people and injured at least 134 others.

Of the 473 attacks confirmed to date, 399 have hit health facilities, 127 stocks, 69 means of transport including ambulances, 58 staff, 24 patients and 12 warehouses.

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According to Jarno Habicht, WHO representative in Ukraine, these attacks are “an obstacle for many people who needed health care during the war”, he told reporters in Geneva. But they did not completely destroy the Ukrainian health system, “who has managed to survive and provide care where and when it is most needed”said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

“No system can provide optimal health to its population under the stress of war, which is why we continue to call on the Russian Federation to end this war.”

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO

in a press release

Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations in Geneva, Yevheniya Filipenkofor his part affirmed that “2,328 educational institutions were damaged and 289 were completely destroyed (…) 139 cultural heritage sites were destroyed; 15,000 apartments and 150,000 houses were damaged, destroyed or seized.”