Russian forces have attacked 61 hospitals in Ukraine, damaging windows, walls and medical equipment. Aljazeera reports.
Ukraine’s Health Minister Viktor Liashko told a local television channel
According to news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda.“Terrorists from the aggressor country destroyed 61 of our hospitals. But thanks to the active work of various services, many of these hospitals continue to operate,” Liashko was quoted as saying.
Newyork Times Also reports that “Around Ukraine, as Russian bombings have grown more indiscriminate, Hospitals have become increasingly perilous places to work. They have been hit by heavy artillery, and doctors and nurses have been killed while performing their duties.
“The Ukrainian Ministry of Health reported that 34 medical facilities had been damaged and that at least 10 doctors had been killed.
“Ambulance workers have also been killed. The ministry said seven ambulances had been fired on, killing four emergency medical technicians in separate incidents, and that another two emergency medical technicians were killed while traveling in civilian cars to treat the wounded.
The most dire conditions are not in Kyiv, the capital, but in cities partially or wholly surrounded, such as Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, where three medical facilities have been damaged by artillery: the Kharkiv City Hospital, the Regional Children’s Hospital and a blood bank
