The WHO Director-General paid a visit to Ukraine only after 70 days of war.
Visit to Ukraine of the Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Hebreesus should change his personal and organizational attitude to the war in Ukraine, which was previously only in the context of “expressions of concern”, said co-founder of the Ukrainian Health Center (UHC), former Deputy Minister of Health Kovtonyuk.
“It is time to mention a few facts: the Russian Federation, a member of the WHO, is systematically and deliberately destroying the health care system of Ukraine, another member of the WHO. We estimate that 158 medical facilities have been attacked since the beginning of the major invasion, with at least 16 medics killed and 40 injured, ”he said, noting that“ span style = text-decoration: underline; “> Russia, despite its criminal actions, remains a full member of the WHO with the right to vote and other privileges , and the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko continues to hold a high position as a member of the WHO Executive Committee, which also includes the Minister of Health of Belarus Dmitry Pinevich.
Kovtonyuk noted that the WHO was able to call the war in Ukraine a war only on the 42nd day after the invasion. At the same time, Hebrews himself until recently considered the attention to the war in the center of Europe too great, and one that is a consequence of racism, because white people are fighting in the war.
“On International Health Day on April 7, the organization decided to launch a global campaign to draw the world's attention not to Ukraine but to the climate. Now the rhetoric of the CEO is changing. But on the 72nd day of the war, the rhetoric was not enough. I hope that the impressions of what I saw and heard in Ukraine will lead to the fact that Mr. Hebreesus and the WHO will take action, “the expert added.
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< It will be recalled that WHO Director-General Tedros Hebreesus visited Ukraine on May 7. In particular, together with representatives of the Government of Ukraine he visited the destroyed towns and villages of Kyiv region.
Hebreesus himself posted on Twitter a photo from Kyiv region, which he signed: “War is hell. I call on the Russian Federation to end the war. ” Ukrainian military shot down a Russian helicopter with a landing on Zmiiny Island In the past 24hrs, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 14 air targets of the Russian army. Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Russian army has lost about 25,500 servicemen – the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Troops in full combat readiness in Transnistria The situation in the Bessarabian direction remains tense. More than 5.8 million people have left Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian-UN invasion Most Ukrainians have left for Poland.
