Fear of a cholera outbreak due to sanitary conditions in Mariupoloccupied by the Russians amid the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, has led to its quiet closure, according to an aide to the city’s mayor.
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“It seems that the occupants have realized that there is such a challenge,” Petro Andriushchenko said on national television, referring to cholera, an infection that causes acute diarrhoea, and is “closely related to inadequate access to clean water.” and sanitation facilities.
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“There is talk of quarantine”specified an article by the CNN medium, which delved into the subject and clarified that it could not independently confirm the statements.
Andriushchenko has provided important information about the state of the taken Mariupol, despite not being in the city.
“The city has really become one with dead bodies everywhere,” he said.
“They are piled up. The occupants cannot afford to bury them even in mass graves. There is not enough capacity even for this.”
Furthermore, he said that it was “difficult to convey” the dark reality of Mariupol.
For its part, the World Health Organization is also concerned about a possible cholera outbreak in Mariupol and says it has prepositioned vaccines in Dnipro, according to CNN.
“We received information that there are actually swamps in the streets, and the sewage and drinking water are mixing”said Dr Dorit Nitzan, WHO European Region Emergency Coordinator, who visited Ukraine last month and called the hygiene situation in Mariupol a “huge danger”.
Mariupol currently has a population of about 150,000 people and a little more than 30,000 in the surrounding suburbs, according to Mariupol deputy mayor Serhiy Orlov.
WHO denounces pressure on Ukrainian health network
Ukraine’s healthcare system is under severe strainwith destroyed facilities, others working to the limit and a growing need for attention to psychological trauma, the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed a week ago when the hundred days of war in the country were completed.
“WHO is doing everything possible to support the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and send essential supplies, but the real medicine it needs
Ukraine is peace. We demand that Russia end this war,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
The Geneva-based organization recalled that in the hundred days since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, 269 attacks on health facilities have been confirmed, in which at least 76 people have died and another 59 have been injured.
“These attacks are unjustified and must be investigated. No health professional should be forced to work under the razor’s edgebut it is what is happening to doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers in
Ukraine,” added WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge.
To address the growing need for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and rebuild the health system, the WHO asks for 147.5 million dollars (137.3 million euros).
Of the total amount, 80 million dollars will go to Ukraine and 67.5 million to help countries that host and receive refugees, such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Moldova and Romania.
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*With information from EFE
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