The WHO has documented at least 31 attacks on healthcare facilities or equipment since the invasion began.
Five days ago a photograph went around the world, becoming a symbol of the dangerous situation faced by pregnant women in Ukraine. The image, captured by photographer Evgeniy Maloletka for the Associated Press (AP), reveals one of those injured in a Russian bombing of a hospital in Mariupol. It showed a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher, her face pale and her left hip covered in blood after the airstrike. With one arm she caressed her belly bathed in the red liquid as if she wanted to protect her unborn child from the horrors of war. The story has culminated in a tragic ending. This Monday it was learned that both the mother and the baby lost their lives.
The woman was rushed to another nearby hospital but arrived with a crushed pelvis and a severed hip, the AP reported. Surgeon Timur Marin explained that the doctors delivered the baby by cesarean section, but it was too late. “She showed no signs of life,” lamented the doctor. Unfortunately, her mother was conscious at that tragic moment and she claimed that she could not bear such suffering. “Kill me now!” She desperately shouted at the doctors. Despite the efforts of the doctors, her wife was also unable to survive the intervention and, after thirty minutes of resuscitation, she also lost her life.
The woman’s father and husband picked up both bodies on Monday. “At least someone has come and they have not ended up in the common grave of the city,” the doctors commented. Their deaths are thus added to those of three other people, including a girl, who perished at the same time as the bombing of the Mariúpol hospital, which also left 17 injured and sparked international condemnation. The Kremlin denied the existence of civilians in the attack on the health center, which they said was unused. However, UN sources assured that it was in operation at that time and that women and children were in it.
90 children deceased
The war has hit Ukraine hard, where at the moment a total of ninety minors have lost their lives and more than a hundred have been injured, the Attorney General’s Office reported Monday. Most of these victims have taken place in the Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Chernigov, Sumy, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zhitomir regions. The World Health Organization, for its part, has documented at least 31 attacks on healthcare facilities or equipment since the Russian military offensive began. According to the UN, “80,000 Ukrainian women are expected to give birth in the next three months, while oxygen and medical supplies, including for treatment of pregnancy complications, are running dangerously low.”
As a result of the bombing, 379 educational institutions have also been damaged, of which 59 are totally destroyed, reported the Attorney General’s Office. The greatest impact has been in Donetsk (119 installations), although other cities such as Mykolaiv (30), Sumy (28), Kiev (35) and Kherson (21) have also been affected.
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