Bonus - War Crimes and Russia's Bombing of Mariupol Maternity Hospital in Ukraine
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Does Russia's bombing of the Mariupol Maternity Hospital constitute a war crime? Johns Hopkins faculty member and author Len Rubenstein returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the recent attack, Russia's history of destroying hospitals, and the importance of accountability to stop such attacks in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhut.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.5 | Today, our topic is the bombing of a maternity hospital in Maryupal, Ukraine. I speak to |
| 0:48.4 | Len Rubinstein, an expert on attacks on health care during war, and professor of the practice at the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:55.5 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. Let's listen. Len Rubenstein, thanks so much for coming |
| 1:02.2 | back to public health on call. We all saw the news of the maternity hospital being bombed |
| 1:07.5 | in the Ukraine. What do we know about what happened? Thanks for having me, Josh. |
| 1:12.6 | We know it was hit probably by a missile attack from Russia. |
| 1:16.6 | It may have been a bomb. |
| 1:18.6 | But we know that the front of the hospital was destroyed. |
| 1:25.6 | There were at least 17 injuries, mostly staff. |
| 1:31.0 | We think that there weren't too many people in the hospital |
| 1:35.4 | because the whole city is surrounded |
| 1:37.3 | and people really can't get out of basements |
| 1:40.7 | and other shelters. |
| 1:43.4 | But people were, of course, injured and the damage was very significant. |
| 1:49.0 | This wasn't the first time a hospital has been hit in this conflict. |
| 1:54.0 | Far from it. |
| 1:56.0 | The Ministry of Health has reported more than 60 incidents of violence against hospitals, |
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