WHO denounces about 100 attacks against health services in Ukraine

The World Health Organization (who) denounced on Thursday that he had been able to confirm around a hundred attacks against health infrastructure in Ukraine and called for humanitarian access to the besieged city of Mariupol.

“For now, the who has verified 103 incidents of attacks against services sanitarywith 73 people dead and 51 injured, including health personnel and patients”, said the head of the organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at a press conference.

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Of these, 89 were against sanitary facilities and the rest, for the most part, against services medical transport such as ambulances.

“We are outraged that the attacks against services sanitary continue”, said the person in charge of whoensuring that these constitute “a violation of international humanitarian law.”

Earlier, at a press conference from Lviv, in western Ukrainethe regional director of the who for Europe, Hans Kluge, indicated that health assistance has reached “many affected areas” but that some are out of reach.

“Some are still very difficult”, acknowledged the manager. “I think the priority, clearly, is Mariúpol,” he said.

Strategically located in the Sea of ​​Azov, between the Russian-occupied Crimea and the breakaway territories of eastern UkraineMariupol has been besieged for weeks and under heavy fighting.

Of the 400,000 inhabitants before the war, around 120,000 remain trapped by the fighting and in deplorable conditions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Russia of blocking humanitarian aid access to the city to hide evidence that “thousands” of people were killed there.

Kluge assured that the who has delivered 185 tons of medical supplies to serve half a million people and warned that “50% of the pharmacies of Ukraine are presumed closed.

The director for Europe pointed out that the attacks against services doctors were a “violation of international humanitarian law” but he clarified that the task of the who it is not seeking or attributing responsibility for these actions.

Source: Elcomercio

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