Mariupol, children’s hospital destroyed, Zelensky: “Europeans, you can’t say you haven’t seen”

There are only two expressions that can be used when hospitals fall under the missiles of war: crimes and shame. TO Mariupol, a Ukrainian town overlooking the Azov Sea, under siege by Russian troops for days, more than eight, without water, without electricity, the maternity ward of the pediatric hospital was destroyed. A video was released to testify what had happened, which was also shared by the Ukrainian president Zelenskywhich shows what remains of the health facility.

Inside were pregnant women, immediately rescued by husbands who rushed to the place, by volunteers and the army. “At the moment there are 17 injured because people managed to hide in time”Zelensky continued, denouncing that “it is not the first time that Russia has bombed civilian infrastructures”.

“What the occupiers are doing in Mariupol now outweighs all kinds of atrocities. Europeans! Ukrainians! Mariupol residents! Today we must be united in condemning this war crime of Russia, which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land ”, concluded President Zelensky in his latest message on social media to condemn what happened.

Mariupol Children’s Hospital was new, a well-functioning facility that had continued to provide care for women and children since the start of the war. Now a disfigured facade remains, the glass piled up on the floor, the cradles and incubators shattered, thrown against the walls by the explosion. Among the rubble, the typical colors of the pediatric wards can be glimpsed, green, yellow, pink and blue. Pastel colors that usually convey serenity, calm, because it is a right of children who come into the world to be welcomed in peace. It is a right of their mothers, not to have to hold their bellies tightly with their hands, in that primordial gesture of protection, as they are carried away on a stretcher, in pajamas, in the midst of total destruction, with fear carved on their faces and on their faces. skin that has lost color.

«The attacks on health facilities destroy the little capacity left in the treatment of urgent cases. In a city where the health system is close to collapse, depriving people of much needed health care is a violation of the laws of war.», Explains Olexander of the medical staff of Doctors Without Borders present in Mariupol.

“In Mariupol now there is no more drinking water and it is nowhere to be found. People look for water underground and there are some who collect water from roofs when snow melts. Last night it snowed and so people gathered wood for cooking. The explosions continue … », says Olexander, doctor of Doctors Without Borders. «The situation is particularly serious for the elderly and for people with disabilities. They can’t even find food and can’t light a fire to cook. Here in Mariupol the humanitarian disaster continues. The situation is also very serious for people who have children, because they have many needs, they need various things, including hygiene products, which are nowhere to be found ».

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