UN says Mariupol pediatric hospital is the third destroyed in Ukraine

Before the Russian shelling on Wednesday of the pediatric hospital in Mariupol (east), two other maternity hospitals were destroyed by bombs in Ukrainereported the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in this country, Jaime Nadal.

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The one from Mariúpol “is not the only one. In Zhytomyr (northwest), the maternity ward was totally destroyed. In Saltivsky, in the city of Kharkiv (northeast), the maternity ward was also destroyed,” the official said in a video interview with journalists at the UN In New York.

He could not specify the origin of the bombings or if they had caused victims.

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There are “69 maternity and antenatal centers” in Ukrainehe added.

He said that according to UNFPA, “some 80,000 pregnant women are going to give birth in Ukraine in the next three months.”

In all, some 240,000 women were pregnant in Ukraine and that between February 24, the date of the beginning of the Russian invasion of the country, and March 7, 4,311 gave birth, he said.

A car catches fire after the shelling of a hospital in Mariupol. (AP Photo/Evgeny Maloletka)

In Mariupol, the Russian bombing against the pediatric hospital left three dead, including a girl, according to the municipality of this port city. The previous balance published on Wednesday by the authorities spoke of 17 wounded.

The attack on this hospital provoked the outrage of the Ukrainian and Western authorities.

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Source: Elcomercio