Weekly Update #9
April 26

OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

Health Needs:

• As of 21 April, 162 attacks on health care facilities have been recorded by the World Health Organization (WHO), claiming 73 lives and injuring another 52 people.

• According to REACH’s RNA conducted in settlements in central Ukraine, 25 per cent of respondents cited difficulties in accessing health-care services. The oblasts where substantial difficulties in accessing health services include Kirovohradska (60 per cent) and Cherkaska (29 per cent).

• Among settlements where difficulties in accessing health services were reported, the primary unmet needs were the treatment for chronic health problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure or heart disease, lung disease, cancer, or disabilities (15 per cent), and treatment for mental health conditions or support for excess stress, worry or sadness (8 per cent). Key cited barriers to meeting those needs included lack of medicines and cost of medicines. Access to medicines (25 per cent) was a high concern for most of assessed settlements in central oblasts, especially for Kirovohradska (60 per cent) and Dnipropetrovska (50 per cent). In Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovohradska oblast), there have been problems with the delivery of medicines and shortages of heart medications, bandages and tourniquets.

• According to the World Vision’s RNA conducted in Chernivtsi, 91 per cent of respondents have not faced any challenges in accessing health care and 72 per cent are aware of available mental health services.

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