Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has attacked medical facilities in Ukraine almost 2 thousand times - WHO
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The WHO has recorded 1940 attacks on Ukraine's medical system since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion. In 2024, there was an increase in the number of casualties and injuries among medical workers and patients.
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, 1940 attacks on Ukraine's medical system have been officially recorded . This is stated in the report of the World Health Organization, UNN reports.
Details
The WHO emphasizes that December 2023, attacks on Ukraine's medical system occur almost daily.
For more than 2.5 years, 86% of all such attacks have been against medical facilities, and a significant number of them have involved the use of heavy weapons
The WHO emphasizes that the statistics of 1,940 attacks is the highest it has ever recorded in any global humanitarian emergency.
According to the organization, 42% of all attacks on Ukraine's healthcare system since 2022 have targeted primary care. At the same time, in 2024, the largest number of injuries and deaths occurred in secondary health care: one in five cases resulted in injury.
In 2024, we are seeing a lot of double shelling. Now we have more shelling of civilian infrastructure than before. We are losing colleagues - medical workers, nurses, doctors, paramedics. This year, many more medical workers have been injured than before. According to the WHO, first responders and medical transport workers are three times more likely to be attacked than other healthcare workers
Addendum
The report also notes that last year documented 24 deaths among patients and healthcare workers. In the first 7.5 months of 2024, 34 people died as a result of attacks on medical facilities.
The number of injuries this year exceeded the figures for 2023, as well as the statistics for 2022. It amounts to 229 people.
Recall
Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, says Russia deliberately attacked the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv on the eve of the NATO summit as a "slap in the face" to the Alliance.
