Attack on Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv

Emergency and rescue operations on the territory of a children's hospital in Kyiv have been completed: as a result of a Russian attack on this location, 2 people died and 32 were injured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 8 children who were being treated at the time of the attack were hospitalized with injuries. 

An MSF team visited the hospital today to assess the situation and offer assistance if necessary.

"Increasingly, our teams are witnessing attacks on civilian and medical infrastructure by the Russian forces across Ukraine, on frontline towns and villages and deeper in the country. Hospitals are being destroyed and patients, and medical staff are being killed. The Okhmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv, which was attacked today, is known to our teams. At the beginning of the full-scale war, our doctors assisted medical staff in the surgical wards and provided training for physical therapists", said Christopher Stokes, emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Ukraine.

It is unacceptable that patients cannot feel safe and receive treatment within the walls of a hospital" 

Christopher Stokes, emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Ukraine.

 

An MSF team visited the hospital today to assess the situation and offer assistance if necessary.

Médecins Sans Frontières responds to requests from the Ministry of Health. We support hospitals near the frontline and departments of medical institutions where early physical rehabilitation is provided to patients with war injuries. Our teams continue to assist medical facilities with the evacuation of patients between hospitals and cities by MSF ambulances.