Lack of power and oxygen is affecting hospitals in Ukraine, while millions of people fleeing the war will be at risk from infectious disease and other health problems.
Refugees and internally displaced people tend to have worse health because of crowded and poor living conditions leading to the spread of infectious diseases, for instance.Hospital care is being jeopardised by a lack of power and medical supplies, including oxygen. While people need oxygen support for many illnesses, such as heart and lung conditions, the covid-19 pandemic has increased demand.
Trucks are unable to move oxygen supplies from plants to hospitals across the country. Several oxygen manufacturers face shortages of the mineral zeolite, necessary for its production, which is mainly imported.In the Donetsk region in the east, a million people are currently without access to clean water because two major water pumping stations have been affected by the attack, says the ICRC.
Outbreaks of cholera, a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhoea and can be fatal, often occur inThe invasion will also disrupt normal public health programmes. In January, Ukraine launched a national campaign to boost uptake of the polio vaccine in children, after 20 cases were discovered last year in the city of Rivne and the Zakarpattia region in the west.
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