Sixty-three people have frozen to death in Ukraine over the period of severe frost, with 41 dying on the streets, eight in hospital and 14 at home, the press service of the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry reported on Thursday.
Over the last six days, 1,146 people have sought medical aid for hypothermia or frostbite, and 945 of them have been hospitalized.
Hospitals were told not to discharge homeless patients even if their treatment was finished to save them from the cold
Overnight temperatures sank as low as minus 33 degrees Celsius (minus 27 Fahrenheit).
Some experts suggested the high death toll from the cold was linked to authorities’ unwillingness and incompetence in dealing with the homeless.
Cold deaths were also reported in Poland, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria.
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