WHO confirms 72 attacks against health care in Ukraine

Mariana Vishegirskaya stands exterior a maternity hospital that was broken by shelling in Mariupol.
AP

The World Well being Group on Saturday stated it has verified 72 assaults on well being care in Ukraine because the invasion started Feb. 24.

The entire jumped from 64 on Thursday.

WHO stated that 71 deaths and 37 accidents resulted from the assaults, which included 58 on well being care services, 11 on transportation, 16 on well being care staff and 10 on sufferers.

“WHO strongly condemns these assaults,” the company tweeted. “Assaults on well being care; e.g. sufferers, services, transport, personnel, provides & warehouses – violate worldwide regulation & endanger lives.”

“We're involved that this quantity is growing every day,” the WHO’s Ukraine nation consultant Jarno Habicht instructed the BBC. “Well being services needs to be protected locations for each docs and nurses, but additionally sufferers to show to for therapy. This could not occur.”

Smoke rises in Lviv, western Ukraine.

AP

A map reveals the cities threatened by Russian incursion.

Rubble is seen at a psychiatric hospital, which was hit by an enemy shell, within the village of Oskil.

by way of REUTERS

The company retains working tabs on assaults on well being care services in conflicts all through the world.

In its social media posts, WHO used the hashtag #NotATarget and shared photographs of well being care staff with the slogan “Well being staff should not be a goal.”