Disabled children ‘dumped’ in Ukrainian institutions
May 11, 2022 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
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.
Reporting by Dan Johnson
Filmed by Jonathan Dunstan
Produced by Ruth Clegg and Natalie Higgins
