The Ministry of Health said how much money is needed to rebuild hospitals, outpatient clinics, polyclinics

Over more than three years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the country's healthcare system has suffered colossal losses, reaching 19.4bn dollars. According to the Health Ministry, the greatest damage was recorded in the regions where the fighting was fiercest - Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions.

The head of the Health Ministry, Viktor Lyashko, stressed that at the moment the Ukrainian health care system is in urgent need of significant investments and their efficient distribution. In this regard, the ministry has developed key benchmarks for further development of the sector.

This year, a vision of the future of medicine - the Strategy for the development of the health care system until 2030 - was approved," the statement said.

According to Lyashko, the document includes two fundamental directions: strengthening the sustainability of the system in the conditions of war and its simultaneous recovery, integrated with the processes of reforming and improving the efficiency of work.

As of early February 2025, as a result of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine, 1,982 medical facilities were damaged and another 301 were destroyed to the ground.

Medical facilities in Kharkiv, Donetschyna, Mykolayiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya have suffered losses as a result of enemy shelling. In addition, since the beginning of the war, Russia has damaged 237 emergency medical vehicles, destroyed 273 and captured 80.

Despite active shelling by the Russians, 124 medical facilities were rebuilt in 2024.