The NGO Doctors Without Borders reports cases in hospitals of people arriving with frozen hands and legs or with clear symptoms of hypothermia, and that health workers have to stop with intravenous thermal treatments to restore their temporary temperature.
The MSF coordinator in Ukraine, Enrique García Ortiz, admits that in these conditions it is very difficult to work, taking into account that electricity is crucial for health centers to function. “It is difficult to prepare for this type of situation. For example, there was an elderly man who arrived at the hospital with hypothermia, and we had to warm him up and administer hot intravenous liquids,” says García Ortiz.
This week, an Amnesty International report noted that systematic Russian attacks on energy facilities subject the Ukrainian population to situations of “extreme cruelty,” having to sleep in thermal clothing or warm themselves with camping stoves or candles.
Russian bombers against Ukrainian energy facilities continue this morning with more than 200 drones and 24 missiles that have killed two people. A situation that worsens with subzero thermometers, without electricity or water because the pipes are frozen and have even burst.
Remember the hardest moments of World War II
The mayor of kyiv denounces that at least 2,600 buildings have been left without heating and that the rest have barely 5 hours of daily light (in the best of cases). And residents in the capital say that the mobile community kitchens on the streets for those who cannot prepare food at home are reminiscent of the harshest moments of World War II.
Ukraine counterattacked this Thursday with the bombing of an oil refinery almost 2,000 kilometers from the border.
