UKRAINE’S FIRST LADY SAYS 60% OF COUNTRY NEEDS PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP

Tue 07 June 2022:

About 60 percent of Ukrainians need psychological help as a result of the war, Ukraine’s first lady has said, adding that Kyiv was working on establishing a national support system.

Olena Zelenska said that the figure was mentioned in a working group of the National Program for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, which she said had gone from negotiations with first ladies of various countries and the World Health Organization (WHO) to the creation of a specific action plan at the state level.

She said the action plan included having representatives of WHO helping Ukraine establish a model for a system of care, and delivering training to family doctors, psychologists, social workers and teachers in rapid methods of psychological support.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s health minister said up to 15 million Ukrainians may face mental problems caused by the ongoing war with Russia.

“With every passing day, the number of people who will face consequences for their mental health, will keep growing,” Viktor Lyashko was quoted by the RBC Ukraine newspaper as saying.

“Mental exhaustion awaits even those who could firmly face the first months of war,” he was quoted as saying.

Ukraine says some 263 children killed amid war

Ukraine says 263 children have been killed as a result of Russia’s invasion and subsequent conflict, while more than 467 have been injured.

Work is still under way to establish the number of casualties in “places of active hostilities, temporarily occupied and liberated territories,” the office of the prosecutor general said.

The highest number of children who suffered were in the Donetsk region (190), followed by Kyiv (116), Kharkiv (112), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (53), Kherson (52), Mykolaiv (47) and Zaporizhia (29), the office added.

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