Ukrainians ‘sent home to die’ in Russian-occupied territories as occupiers withhold medicines
Russian officials are refusing to provide medicines to seriously ill patients in occupied Melitopol Zaporizhzhya Oblast, the city’s mayor, Ivan Fedorov, said on national television on Oct. 19.
"In the past, access to medical facilities was only possible with a Russian passport. Now it doesn't help; the enemy refuses to provide medicines, especially for patients with serious diseases. There is no medicine at all for hemophilia, and in Simferopol (occupied Crimea), they refuse to provide it for free," Fedorov said.
There is also an acute shortage of vaccines for newborns in the occupied territories, according to Fedorov.
Maternity hospitals have not received the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects infants and children against severe forms of tuberculosis, since June, Fedorov said.
The National Resistance Center previously reported that residents of Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories do not have access to essential medicines as Russia is withholding medical supplies for its military personnel.
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