Mariupol Maternity Hospital Third To Be Destroyed In Ukraine: UN
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Jaime Nadal, Ukraine lead for the UNFPA, revealed that the hospital in Mariupol is "not the only one" that has fallen under assault.
The United Nations' reproductive health agency announced Thursday that two other Ukrainian maternity hospitals had been attacked and destroyed before Russia's strike on a facility in the southeastern city of Mariupol on Wednesday. The hospital in Mariupol is "not the only one" that has fallen under assault, said Jaime Nadal, the Ukraine lead for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). "In Zhytomyr, the maternity (hospital) was completely destroyed. In Saltivsky, the maternity (hospital) was also destroyed," he noted, speaking via videoconference with journalists in New York.
The UN official did not specify who launched the attacks on the other hospitals or if there were any victims.
"There are 300 hospitals and 69 maternities, perinatal centers" in Ukraine, he said, noting that his agency estimates "over the next three months about 80,000 women will be giving birth" in the country.
According to Nadal, Ukraine currently has around 240,000 women who are pregnant, and over 4,300 women have already given birth in the time between Russia's invasion on February 24 through March 7.
