The World Health Organization (WHO) chief said Thursday that access to Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol and other embattled areas is now 'critical.'
"Loads ready for Mariupol remain in staging areas and cannot proceed. Access to this and other areas is now critical," Tedros explained. cities and villages in the eastern Donetsk region, with dozens of civilians killed and injured as a result of the attacks. military were firing at Mariupol, Avdiivka, Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk, Novoselydivka, Verkhnotoretske, Krymka and Stepne.
In any conflict, Tedros pointed out that attacks on health care are a violation of international humanitarian law, with disruption to services and supplies in Ukraine posing an"extreme risk" to those with cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, HIV and TB: some of the leading causes of mortality in Ukraine.
Tedros said that the war is also exacerbating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine, noting that critical shortages of oxygen would hamper the ability to treat coronavirus patients and that at least eight facilities for producing and storing liquid oxygen in Ukraine have now closed.
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