GENEVA
\nThere have been 473 verified attacks on health care in Ukraine since Russia invaded six months ago, which have killed nearly 100 people, the WHO said Wednesday.
\nThe World Health Organization\u2019s Europe chief Hans Kluge branded the attacks \u201cunconscionable.\u201d
\nAs well as the 98 people known to have been killed in verified attacks on health care, at least 134 others were wounded, the WHO\u2019s figures showed.
\nNearly 400 of the attacks hit health facilities. Dozens of attacks struck transport, including ambulances, while warehouses, supplies, personnel and patients were also damaged. Jarno Habicht, the WHO\u2019s representative in Ukraine, said the number of attacks on health care was unprecedented.
\n\u201cThese attacks are not only a violation of international law, they are also a barrier for many who need health care during the war,\u201d he told reporters in Geneva, via video-link from a bunker in Dnipro.
\nAlthough the war had had a devastating impact on the health and lives of Ukraine\u2019s people, the health system had not collapsed, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
\n\u201cBut no system can deliver optimum health to its people under the stress of war, which is why we continue to call on the Russian Federation to end this war,\u201d Tedros added.
\nThese types of attacks in Ukraine had killed and maimed civilians and health providers alike, as well as denying treatment to those who need it the most, said the WHO.
\nKluge paid tribute to the \u201cheroic efforts of health providers… despite their own personal suffering.\u201d
\nYevheniia Filipenko, Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, said that 19 out of 20 missiles that have struck the country in the past six months had hit civilian targets.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not only the health institutions but residential buildings (that) have been targeted,\u201d she added.
\n\u201cThe level of damage and destruction is unbelievable.\u201d
\nEducation facilities, private homes and cultural sites had all been destroyed or damaged, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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