Doctors Without Borders finds mass destruction of health facilities in Ukraine
MSF’s third medical train referral in Ukraine. 06 and 07 April – 40 patients evacuated by train from #Kramatorsk. One transferred in #Kyiv and 39 transferred in #Lviv This follows after another evacuation the previous day of 17 patients from Kramatorsk to Dnipro. We heard the horrific news on the morning of 08 April that Kramatorsk station had been hit by one or more strikes. “I am horrified by reports of bombing or missile strike today on Kramatorsk station. We were there yesterday, and we saw hundreds of people crowding the station, trying to leave. The hospitals had been urgently calling us to evacuate their patients by train. Most came from #Sievierodonestk and other towns in #Luhansk region. We were just in time with this train. Big questions whether we will be able to go back to evacuate more people.”
The international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) reveals in a new report the widespread destruction of health facilities in Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion.
MSF has warned the warring countries to uphold “international humanitarian law and their obligations to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure”.
“Despite requests to work on both sides of the frontline, MSF is only able to operate in areas under Ukrainian control, and our observations are limited to those areas,” MSF said in a statement.
“The use of landmines is widespread in frontline areas, but to see them placed in medical facilities is shocking: a remarkable act of inhumanity,” said Vincenzo Porpiglia, project coordinator for MSF activities in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
“It sends a clear message to those who come in search of medicines or treatments: Hospitals are not a safe place
Source: Aljazeera
