WHO responding to serious health concerns in conflict-affected Ukraine – No vaccine stocks in crisis-hit Ukraine

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WHO responding to serious health concerns in conflict-affected Ukraine
9 September 2014 ¦ Geneva/Kiev–The crisis in eastern Ukraine is creating a looming health emergency as hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and are living in varying and often exposed conditions as winter approaches, many without official status either as internally displaced persons or as refugees.

No vaccine stocks in crisis-hit Ukraine: WHO
September 9, 2014 5:05 PM
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Geneva (AFP) – Conflict-torn Ukraine is facing a health emergency, with no stocks of any vaccines and dire shortages of many medicines, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
“Ukraine has no vaccines… They don’t have any vaccines in their storage,” said Dorit Nitzan, who heads WHO’s country office in Ukraine.
“Even before the crisis they had low (immunisation) coverage,” she told reporters in Geneva, stressing that there was a dearth of “every kind of vaccine.”
The shortage raises deep concerns that polio could break out in Ukraine, Nitzan said, pointing out that the crippling disease that mainly hits young children “usually comes in countries in turmoil.”…