It has been a month since the Russian Federation has been systematically carrying out military attacks (including airstrikes) on residential housing, civilian buildings, hospitals, kindergartens, schools, even cultural monuments, religious institutions, and other non-military civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
Since 24th February 1403 air raids and 291 missile strikes were carried out by the Russian military in Ukraine.
“During the month of the war, the occupiers fired on 135 hospitals, 9 of which were destroyed” - minister of Health Viktor Lyashko announced. According to him, the Russian Army fired on 43 ambulances and killed six healthcare workers.
"On 20 March there was a glaring case for the whole world. An ambulance brigade, which accompanied the humanitarian convoy, was taken hostage. Fortunately, now the medics are safe, in the territory controlled by Ukraine", - Lyashko said.
The World Health Organisation documented 31 attacks on healthcare workers, medical sites, and facilities. There are frequent reports of hostages of doctors and patients in hospitals in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions. Because of the constant shelling of the civilian infrastructure, thousands of patients have no access to vital treatment.
Mariupol
"Access to the hospital building is impossible. High-rise buildings are burning around. No one is allowed from the hospital. The occupiers created a living shield for the people they captured and detained. " - the omnipresent situation in one of the hospitals in Mariupol.
During the last weeks of the war, the Mariupol City Council reported on the mass forced deportation of the citizens to the Russian Federation. On 26 March the Russian military forcibly deported doctors and patients from the city hospital №1.
In Mariupol, blocked by Russian invaders, in the basement of the hospital №4, doctors continue to operate on patients.
"Mariupol is under blockade for 23 days. 23 days as the city is purposefully destroyed by the Russian occupiers. During the blockade, due to continuous shelling, the number of killed is estimated at thousands of civilians, and the wounded at least three more. Despite all the difficulties in the city, hospitals continue to fight every day for the lives of Mariupol residents. In City Hospital №4 due to the continuous shelling, doctors are to operate on patients in basements."
Kyiv
Photos and videos taken around the basement of the largest children's hospital in Ukraine Okhmatdyt flew around the world. Basements instead of hospital boxes. Patients stay in the shelter constantly, hiding from the shells of the Russian Army. Among the children are those who have orphan diseases, patients after neurosurgery, children with oncology, newborns, and others.
Operating rooms and wards are arranged in basements. Doctors are rescuing not only seriously ill children from all over Ukraine but also citizens who were injured during the fighting in the capital.
Many children are among the wounded, who are brought to the hospital by ambulance. The other day, an ambulance brought an approximately 7-year-old boy with a shrapnel wound to the neck, multiple shrapnel injuries to soft tissues, a torn head wound, and a concussion. He lost a lot of blood. Currently the boy is in intensive care, unconscious, on artificial lung ventilation. The child's parents are unknown at this time.
Okhmatdyt doctors work around the clock, in difficult conditions to conduct emergency operations, rescuing children and adults. They are constantly on duty near those little patients who cannot be removed from life support devices.
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