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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko

Power cuts another worry for Ukraine's critically ill

People receive hemodialysis treatment in a hospital as water supplies were cut off as power went off in the area, as a part of rolling blackouts introduced by the authorities, to save electricity after recent Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, in Obukhiv, Ukraine November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Each time Ukrainian pensioner Halyna Halytska prepares for her hospital treatment, she is preoccupied with a single thought: Will there be enough power and water to see her through?

Outages, caused by Russian air strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure, can last for hours at a time as Halytska and 27 other patients lie tied to their dialysis machines in hospital in Obukhiv, a city south of Kyiv.

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