Attachments
Download Report
HIGHLIGHTS
The WHO Country Office (CO) in Ukraine continues its efforts to deliver medicines and emergency health kits to key areas in the country by taking part in UN-led interagency humanitarian convoys. On 5–12 May various medical supplies, medicines and surgical tools were delivered to Kharkiv, to Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, and to Poltava.
The deliveries were made possible with support from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), the Embassy of Germany, the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (OCHA Ukraine), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD).
SITUATION UPDATE
▪ For the eighth time this month, Kyiv was hit by a barrage of air attacks on 16 May. Eighteen air, sea and land-based missiles were shot down. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rocket debris fell in central districts, but no injuries were reported.
▪ On 15 May 2023 the Russian forces launched missile strikes on Avdiivka in the Donetsk region, killing four people. Furthermore, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, stated that as a result of shelling in Kurakhove, three people were injured and seven high-rise buildings were damaged.
▪ A warehouse with an area of over 1000 square metres holding humanitarian aids in Ternopil burned down in a missile attack carried out on 13 May. “This is a warehouse where the humanitarian aid of the charitable foundation was stored […]. This warehouse was used for storing things that we hand over to hospitals to be distributed and transferred to the hardest-hit parts of the country,” said Ivan Gontar, entrepreneur and head of the Light of Reformation charitable foundation, who managed the warehouse.
▪ In the past week the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Ukraine and the European Commission secured the evacuation of 24 injured Ukrainians for treatment in clinics in Germany, Lithuania, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Norway and Poland. Medical evacuations from Ukraine are carried out via the emergency response system of the European Union, when a specialized clinic in an EU Member State is urgently sought for treatment and rehabilitation of Ukrainians.
▪ A strategic session on security issues in the Ukrainian health-care sector took place in Rzeszów on 10–11 May, attended by experts from the National Health Service of Ukraine. The country’s healthcare facilities are under constant assault, which has affected the health-care system as a whole. The planning session was held to coordinate activities between partners and projects in priority areas such as surveillance, including wastewater surveillance and data improvement; laboratory direction; and preparedness and response to emergency situations (including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats).