The doctors and nurses of Ukraine need our help – this is what we can do

Professor Anthony Zwi
Inside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine.

Reports earlier this week of Russian attacks and siege of a major hospital in the Ukraine city of Mariupol indicate a particularly bleak and dark phase of the war.

Sergei Orlov, the city’s deputy mayor, told the BBC how Russian forces had entered the building, preventing doctors and nurses from leaving. About 400 people had been effectively taken as “hostages”.