Ukraine restored 474 medical facilities damaged by Russians

Source: Ukraine’s health ministry

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has managed to fully restore the operation of 474 medical facilities damaged by Russian attacks.

This number includes medical facilities in the liberated territories and all over Ukraine. The biggest numbers of restored medical objects are in Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.

In addition, the health ministry partly restored the work of 383 medical facilities.

The ministry also reported that as of now, Russian strikes have completely ruined 195 and damaged 1 508 medical facilities.

Russia continues to purposefully and systematically destroy Ukrainian hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, maternity wards, and other medical facilities, as well as terrorize the civilian population, creating an additional burden on the health care system.

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