Cancer is being treated

Boy from destroyed children’s clinic in Kiev brought to Salzburg

The University Hospital Salzburg

(Bild: Markus Tschepp)

A 13-year-old boy has been brought to Salzburg one week after a children's clinic in Kiev was destroyed by a Russian missile attack. The sick child is now being treated here.

One week after the destruction of the Okhmatdyt children's clinic in Kiev by a Russian missile attack, Austria has taken in two children suffering from cancer. According to the Ministry of Health, a 13-year-old boy and his mother were flown to Salzburg University Hospital. A twelve-year-old was already taken to the provincial hospital in Graz on Monday, also accompanied by a parent.

80 people treated in Austria
Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) had offered Ukraine support immediately after the attack on the special clinic. A total of 80 seriously ill people have been brought to Austria from Ukraine since the outbreak of war. The transports were organized by the Ministries of the Interior, Health and Foreign Affairs. Medical care is the responsibility of the federal states, it is said.

"The attack on a children's clinic in Kiev was a despicable Russian war crime. I would like to thank my colleagues Alexander Schallenberg and Gerhard Karner and the federal states for immediately organizing the urgently needed help for these children together," explained Rauch.