Disabled children 'dumped' in Ukrainian institutions

 

 

There are claims that thousands of disabled Ukrainian children have been forgotten and abandoned in institutions that can’t look after them. The human rights organisation, Disability Rights International, has carried out an investigation and found children with severe disabilities tied to beds in overrun children’s homes unable to cope. The BBC has been given exclusive access to an institution in western Ukraine, where disabled children from the east have been left by their carers who fled to neighbouring countries.

Disabled children in the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has made life difficult for families, and it has hit those with disabled children especially hard. Many of them, like kids with down syndrome, have a weakened immune system and are forced into isolation during the pandemic.