Lavrov is unhappy that at the G20 they are talking about Russia’s war in Ukraine
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The World Health Organization says it is expanding its life-saving mission across Ukraine to provide physical and mental care to sick war victims who have failed to receive treatment.
WHO has seven centers throughout Ukraine that provide for the needs of people affected by the war. The organization is currently building its eighth building in the strategic southwestern port city of Odesa.
Speaking from the city, WHO crisis manager for Ukraine Dorit Nitsan said WHO is committed to helping people whose physical and mental health has been affected or worsened by the Russian invasion.
She says millions of people with chronic conditions do not receive treatment for life-threatening conditions. For example, she says, people who don’t receive early cancer diagnosis and treatment are different from those who progress.
She also reported that the condition of people who did not receive treatment for hypertension, stroke, diabetes and other physical and mental illnesses worsened.
“Because of the war, people become disabled in various ways. Noise and bombardment damage hearing,” Mitsan said. – Land mines were the cause of the amputation. And of course the fear, grief and insecurity that affect mental health.”
Nitzan notes that the health care system throughout the country is overburdened. She says there is a shortage of medical workers. Many of them were killed, others left the country. She said that internally displaced persons who were forced to leave their homes would do everything possible to fill the gap.
Another problem, she says, is that many people who desperately need help cannot be reached because of the fighting.
“We do not have access to all territories. Now many territories are under shelling, attack, as I have already said. (…) We are asking for humanitarian corridors so that we can intervene and take care of those in need.”
Unfortunately, the WHO representative notes, no positive response has been received to the numerous requests of aid agencies regarding the provision of humanitarian corridors and assistance in besieged areas.
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