There is a medical crisis in Donbass due to the war: WHO expects an outbreak of polio and tuberculosis
London - Kyiv, January 16 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - Due to the war in Donbass, according to World Health Organization, a full-scale crisis of medical care and medical services is growing, reports Reuters.
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“Health care is collapsing after nine months of conflict in eastern Ukraine, where shortages of medicines and vaccines risk an outbreak of diseases such as polio, measles and tuberculosis. This is reported by the World Health Organization.
Conditions are especially difficult, WHO reports, in towns in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, where people are cut off and cannot receive qualified help. Hospitals are often cut off from water and electricity,” writes Reuters.
WHO estimates that overall some 5,1 million people are suffering from a humanitarian crisis due to the war in Donbass, including 1,4 million considered highly vulnerable.
“The government has decided to reduce medical services in the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which are under the control of militants. That is why there are special problems of lack of vaccines for children and infants, especially measles and polio vaccinations,” said Dr. Dorit Nitzan, WHO Representative in Ukraine.
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