Red Cross facilitates transfer of patients from blockaded Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, ARMENPRESS. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) facilitated the transfer of eight severely ill patients from blockaded Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia for treatment, the healthcare ministry of Nagorno Karabakh said in a statement.

The patients required urgent surgeries.

Planned surgeries are still on hold across Nagorno Karabakh due to the blockade.

7 patients are in intensive care at the Republican Medical Center. Three of them are in critical condition.

So far the Red Cross facilitated the transfer of 135 patients from Artsakh to Armenia.