Ukraine-Russia, WHO: “Nuclear plants are worried, catastrophe risk”

“We are concerned about the integrity and operational safety of nuclear and chemical plants” that may be involved in Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. “The World Health Organization is working with the IAEA”, the International Atomic Energy Agency, “and we continue to ask all parties” involved in the conflict “to minimize the risk of a nuclear accident or chemical, which could have catastrophic consequences for human health “. Thus in a press conference from Geneva Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization. “We continue to ask the Russian Federation to stop the war,” says the director general of the World Health Organization. “The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in many parts of the country – explained the DG – and is critical in the districts of Mariupol and Bucha”. “A month has passed since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and they are almost 10 million people who have been forcibly displaced, almost a quarter of the Ukrainian population “, the words of Ghebreyesus, during the press conference in Geneva. “The World Health Organization has verified 64 attacks” on hospitals and more generally “on health care since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and we are looking into further reports. These attacks must stop. health workers must not be a target “, emphasized Ghebreyesus. According to reports from WHO Ukraine, the 64 attacks on the country’s health care confirmed as of March 22” caused 15 deaths and 37 injuries. The attacks on health care violate international law humanitarian and human rights “, underlined the local section of the UN health agency.