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Serious infectious diseases spread among Ukraine people
Ukraine called on urgent humanitarian support to face the outbreak of infectious diseases, which has raised its plight in the face of a months-old Russian ongoing attack.
Mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Buichenko, who now works from outside the southern coastal city, said drainage and hygiene systems were broken, and “bodies are rotting in the streets.”
Mariupol became a wreck and became completely under Russian control, following a siege that lasted nearly 3 months.
Boychenko added, “There is an outbreak of dysentery and cholera. This is unfortunately our doctors’ assessment of the war, which has sadly claimed more than 20 thousand residents, and because of the outbreak, will claim thousands more lives in Mariupol “.
Dysentery is an infectious disease that affects the intestine, especially the colon, and is accompanied by severe blood or mucous diarrhea, bacterial causes of amoebic infection.
Cholera is a bacterial disease usually spread through contaminated water, causing diarrhea and severe deficiency.
The local official called on the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to work towards the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to allow the rest of the population to leave the city.
Mariupol was one of the Russian targets in the war, in particular the Azovestal steel plant, which blockaded thousands of Ukrainian fighters and civilians for months, before falling fully into the Russian hold.
