Exhausted doctors in Ukraine have described the challenges of caring for sick and injured children from a hospital basement, as others shift from treating tumours to gunshot wounds.

Amid ongoing airstrikes by Russian forces in Ukraine, clinical staff from Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital are now living onsite while caring for children with cancer and the wounded in a makeshift ED in the hospital’s basement.

Neurosurgeon Dr Dmytro Ishchenko has described how he has been living in the hospital since the hostilities began, and has gone from treating tumours to trauma and gunshot wounds.

This includes a baby who died after a bullet wound to the head, probably after being caught in crossfire, and seeing extensive shrapnel wounds in children.