(12 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv, Ukraine – 12 September 2024
1. Spokesperson introducing speakers
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional director for Europe:
“Ukraine is approaching its third winter amid full scale war, likely its most challenging. Renewed focus on health is more critical than ever. From government, (inaudible), and donors – a renewed focus along the lines of response, recovery and not least, reforms. As of today, the WHO has confirmed close to 2,000 attacks on health in Ukraine, including hospitals, health workers and patients. In just the past six months, target attacks have damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, frequent summertime power outages already taking a toll with danger signs for the winter.”
3. Cutaway of Kluge and Habicht
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional director for Europe:
“8% of the whole country, 8% of households do not have access to a primary health care facility. So this is physical access. But there’s a big issue also of financial affordability. More than 80% of all the households say they encounter problems in obtaining the medicines they need. One third of the people who responded to our assessment said they do not have enough money to buy medicines.”
5. Cutaway of Kluge and Habicht
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarno Habicht, WHO representative and head of the country office in Ukraine:
“Every war disrupts and disrupts also the health services, what we have in Ukraine. Ukraine’s system works. But we see also areas where the services are very difficult to access. And we see also that the disease patterns are shifting. We have demographic shift. We have more elderly. And we also have shifts in diseases. But the shift in diseases means for me and what we see is that there is increase of various diseases. So we see actually the rates of tuberculosis going up. We see the rates of HIV/AIDS going up. We see mental health needs. In the beginning of the full scale invasion, we estimated 10 million people to have mental health conditions that need support. But as the war goes on, that impact might be much bigger. And this we can only evaluate and its impact for the generations to come only when the war is over, one day. Rehabilitation needs, how many amputations do we need actually? So for me, we have a shift in diseases, which means that the disease burden is much bigger. “
7. Speakers leaving
STORYLINE:
The World Health Organization issued a stark warning Thursday about a potential health crisis in Ukraine as the country faces its third winter of war.
Ongoing Russian air strikes have severely damaged the nation’s energy and healthcare infrastructure, leaving millions vulnerable as temperatures drop, officials from the United Nations agency said.
“Ukraine is approaching its third winter amid a full-scale war – likely its most challenging yet. The renewed focus on health is more critical than ever,” Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional director for Europe, told reporters in Kyiv.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, the United Nations agency has recorded nearly 2,000 attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare infrastructure, which it said is having a severe impact on the largely public health system.
“Targeted attacks have damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Frequent power outages are already taking a toll with danger signs for the winter,” Kluge said following a visit to frontline regions in the east of the country.
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