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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge have warned of a serious shortage of medical supplies and oxygen in Ukraine, and called for ensuring medical supplies reach those who need them.
The organization is working with partners in Poland to safely access these supplies, calling for health supplies to be one of the essential components of the humanitarian response, to allow their safe passage through a logistics corridor, the need to protect health facilities and health workers to save lives during the current crisis, and the arrival of oxygen supplies, which is essential For patients with a range of illnesses, including COVID-19.
There are 1,700 injured in hospitals now, chronic cases, newborns, the elderly and war-wounded. The organization indicated that the oxygen supply has reached a dangerous point, and that trucks are unable to deliver it to hospitals across the country, including the capital, Kiev, and that the majority of Ukrainian hospitals will exhaust their stocks of oxygen. During the next 24 hours.
Manufacturers of medical oxygen generators are also facing a shortage of zeolite, a chemical import product essential for the production of oxygen, and patients are at risk due to the lack of electricity, power and ambulances.
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