Nearly 100 dead in attacks on Ukraine health care: WHO

GENEVA, 25 August 2022, (TON): The WHO said “there have been 473 verified attacks on health care in Ukraine since Russia invaded six months ago, which have killed nearly 100 people.”

The World Health Organization’s Europe chief Hans Kluge branded the attacks unconscionable.

As well as the 98 people known to have been killed in verified attacks on health care, at least 134 others were wounded, the WHO’s figures showed.

Nearly 400 of the attacks hit health facilities. Dozens of attacks struck transport, including ambulances, while warehouses, supplies, personnel and patients were also damaged.

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