WHO warns of 'life-threatening' winter for tens of hundreds of thousands in war-torn Ukraine | World Data

The World Properly being Group on Monday warned that the upcoming winter could possibly be “life-threatening” for tens of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians after a sequence of devastating Russian assaults on the nation’s energy grid.

“Put merely — this winter shall be about survival,” Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe on the United Nations’ properly being physique, knowledgeable reporters all through his go to to Kyiv.

“This winter shall be life-threatening for tens of hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine,” he acknowledged.

Damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure introduced on by fairly a couple of missile strikes “is already having knock-out outcomes on the properly being system and on the oldsters’s properly being,” Kluge acknowledged.

He acknowledged that the WHO has recorded larger than 700 assaults on Ukraine’s properly being providers since Russia’s invasion began in February.

He pointed to “a clear breach” of worldwide humanitarian laws.

“Continued assaults on properly being and energy infrastructure suggest a lot of of hospitals and properly being care providers at the moment are not completely operational,” Kluge acknowledged.

“We depend on two-three million further of us to go away their properties in search of warmth and safety,” he warned.

“They’ll face distinctive properly being challenges, along with respiratory infections much like Covid-19, pneumonia, influenza, and the extreme menace of diphtheria and measles in under- vaccinated inhabitants.”