{"id":4427,"date":"2022-03-05T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartandvascularmed.com\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2022-03-05T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:09:19","slug":"ukraines-most-vulnerable-children-in-a-kherson-home-designed-to-keep-them-safe-and-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/?p=4427","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s most vulnerable children in a Kherson home, designed to keep them safe and healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHO Europe \/ U. Davaasuren<\/p>\n

War can have a devastating effect on children\u2019s mental and physical health, with potentially life-long consequences. That is why children must be protected from harm during conflict situations and never be targeted.<\/figcaption> \n<\/div>\n
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Irina is a child psychologist working in a children\u2019s home in Kherson, southern Ukraine. The home is a sanctuary for children whose parents have found themselves in difficult life circumstances and are unable to cope with parenting responsibilities; that have been abandoned; or whose parents\u2019 parental rights are being taken away for legal reasons.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have 58 children in our care right now, from small babies of a few months up to the age of 4 years-old,\u201d says Irina. \u201cWe also have a group of disabled children. My usual role is to help develop speech, attention and memory, but these days \u2013 like all my colleagues \u2013 we do all we can to help feed, clean and protect our children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the shelling started, we took the children down to the basement of the children\u2019s home, but it was horrible down there,\u201d says Irina. \u201cWe\u2019ve since taken them to one of the churches, where they all are now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday [March 1] was a terrible day for us. The shelling intensified and we heard gunshots. We are asking everyone, \u2018Please let us leave the city and take the children to a safe place\u2019.”<\/p>\n

War can have a devastating effect on children\u2019s mental and physical health, with potentially life-long consequences. That is why children must be protected from harm during conflict situations and never be targeted.<\/p>\n

Since the onset of the military offensive in Ukraine, WHO has called to protect the right to health at any cost. This escalating violence, which is resulting in civilian deaths and injuries and is already taking a high mental health toll, including for children, is unacceptable. The protection of civilians must be priority number one and an obligation under international humanitarian and human rights law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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WHO Europe \/ U. Davaasuren War can have a devastating effect on children\u2019s mental and physical health, with potentially life-long consequences. That is why children must be protected from harm during conflict situations and never be targeted. Irina is a child psychologist working in a children\u2019s home in Kherson, southern Ukraine. The home is a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medicalnewstoday_com"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahvmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}