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Disabled children 'dumped' in Ukrainian institutions

May 8, 2022, 23:45 742 Author: Dan Johnson bbc.com 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.

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.

Without proper treatment, 17-year-old Tymofii Shatulskyi cannot control his serious illness.
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