The Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea called on the international community to respond to the challenges associated with the humanitarian crisis in the occupied peninsula due to the spread of coronavirus infection. The press service of the department reported.
The department highlighted the following problems:
• lack of beds in hospitals for the treatment of patients with COVID-19, refusal to hospitalize even seriously ill patients;
• movement of patients with COVID-19 from hospitals to sanatoriums, where patients are left without medical supervision;
• lack of opportunity to undergo medical examination and / or testing at will;
• lack of access to emergency medical care (the time of arrival of an ambulance reaches 15 hours);
• lack of any essential drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 in pharmacies, which makes it impossible to treat at home;
• distortion of statistics of diseases by the occupation administrations and artificial regulation of statistics for limited access to testing;
• lack of objective information and public awareness of the risks associated with COVID-19;
• lack of proper control over compliance with the rules for the use of personal protective equipment and quarantine measures in public places and places of mass gathering of people.
“In this regard, the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea condemns the actions of the occupation authorities of the Russian Federation and considers it necessary to respond to the challenges associated with the humanitarian crisis in the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula in connection with the spread of the coronavirus infection COVID-19”,- the statement said.