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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- With temperatures dropping as low as -25°C and energy infrastructure under systematic attack, WHO supported nine health facilities across three regions in February alone with 18 charging stations and 12 energy storage systems. Since October 2025, WHO has delivered energy support to 24 hospitals and health facilities across six oblasts.
- WHO launched its 2026 Health Emergency Appeal for Ukraine, requesting US$42.4 million to reach 700,000 people. Ukraine accounts for approximately 45% of all attacks on healthcare recorded globally, a mental health crisis affects an estimated 10 million people, and up to 250,000 hospitalized patients remain at risk from ongoing energy infrastructure attacks.
- WHO and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies launched a new phase of collaboration across four priority areas directly requested by Ukraine's Ministry of Health: health system performance monitoring, strategic purchasing of surgical care, financing of pre-hospital emergency care, and mental health financing.
- Three new partners joined the Declaration of Cooperation on Development and Training of Mental Health Centres, bringing signatories to 14. In 2025, over 124,000 patients received care at Mental Health Centres trained with WHO-developed curriculum, and a new WHO online course on specialized community mental health services has already seen more than 3,000 enrolments.
- WHO launched biosafety and biosecurity training across six blood establishment laboratories in six oblasts, reaching 120 healthcare professionals. For the first time, trainings included drill simulations recreating real contamination scenarios.
- In a milestone for Ukrainian self-sufficiency, the country's first cohort of nationally certified wheelchair training instructors delivered their first independent training series in Dnipro in February, reaching 34 participants including educators from eight universities — no longer dependent on international instructors.