Russians take medicine and equipment from hospitals in the occupied territories - Liashko
6 July 2022
In the occupied territories, the Russians are taking expensive equipment and medicines from hospitals.
At the moment, it is not known where they are taking the looted goods, said Viktor Liashko, Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine, at a briefing on 6 July.
According to Liashko, the situation regarding the provision of medicines in the captured territories is critical.
"Russia has never opened a humanitarian corridor so that we could bring in certified medicines with proven effectiveness, which were purchased with budget funds and received from partners as humanitarian aid," the Minister said.
These are medicines for hospitals and pharmacies, which patients received under the "Affordable Medicines" programme. In particular, antihypertensive drugs and insulins.
"Unfortunately, it is impossible to buy them in pharmacies today. And the reserves we made before the war are at their limit. We receive constant notification that there are problems accessing medicines," Viktor Liashko notes.
Recall that, according to Vadym Boychenko, Mayor of Mariupol, the city is experiencing a shortage of drugs for cancer patients, people with diabetes, tuberculosis, and problems with the thyroid gland.
And in occupied Kherson, medicines are brought in from Crimea and the Russian Federation, then sold without observing proper storage conditions, e.g. from car trunks in local markets.
