Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, warned in an interview with CGTN Europe, that "a third winter of the war in Ukraine may well be the worst one" due to critical shortages in heating and electricity.
He emphasized the urgent need for backup generators to ensure hospitals can continue essential services like blood transfusions and vaccinations.
He emphasized the urgent need for backup generators to ensure hospitals can continue essential services like blood transfusions and vaccinations.
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00:00The third winter of the war in Ukraine may well be the worst one because 40% of the facilities
00:08have no backup plant for any heating or electricity, which of course means that hospitals cannot
00:17function.
00:18So this is the very big concern.
00:21The country needs heating units, the country needs generators in order to continue blood
00:28transfusions in order to continue vaccinations and just for patients not to freeze.
00:34What you have is that donors financing emergencies are decreasing, but at the other hand, there
00:41is no development support because countries are telling if we build a hospital and it's
00:46going to be bombed, then maybe better to wait a little bit.
00:51And this plays also on the mental health, not at least the mental health and the fatigue
00:56of the healthcare workers.