Russia's attacks on health facilities are part of a tragic global trend in conflict zones. Such strikes happen in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia and Chechnya, as well. The result is to cripple health care, scaring people from coming to a clinic if they need help.
Dr. Oleksandr Ryzhenko worked as a pediatric surgeon before the war. A health department doctor observed that his hands are"capable of big miracles." Now he volunteers at City Hospital No. 2 as a trauma surgeon.
Kukhar remembers a girl crying in the hallway as if it were a photograph seared into his memory. He raced to the operating rooms. His colleagues were still alive. Next he ran to what little remained of the Emergency Department."We were trying to find all the wounded to prioritize them," he says,"to render them necessary aid" — including sedatives.
"Everyone was very scared," Lebedieva recounts."The patients — everything that has been done to help them to live their life longer is being destroyed in seconds or minutes. It's such a pain in your heart and hopelessness in your soul." While other health facilities in Ukraine have been spared, Chernihiv isn't alone. Health infrastructure in the regions of Kyiv, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Mariupol, and elsewhere have all been hit hard. From the start of the war until the publication of this article on April 7, the World Health Organization has reported 103 assaults on Ukrainian health facilities.City Hospital No. 2 was heavily damaged from Russian shelling on March 16.
More than half of Chernihiv's population of not quite 300,000 people has fled, but numerous medical personnel have stayed behind to help at City Hospital No. 2, like Oleksandr Ryzhenko.
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