Gaza Health Care (also see Health Care Situation)
Updated 2024-08-25
2024-08-17 UN Secretary-General Urges ‘Polio Pause’ in Israeli War on Gaza as First Case Reported “It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over,” said António Guterres after a 10-month-old infant became Gaza’s first new poliomyelitis case in 25 years.
Following over a month of warnings, Gaza recorded its first case of polio since the highly contagious virus was eradicated there 25 years ago, prompting a Friday call by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for a temporary truce to enable a vaccination drive in the embattled strip.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Friday that an 10-month-old infant in the central city of Deir al-Balah “who has not received any polio vaccine dose” has tested positive for the virus, which often causes paralysis and can be fatal. The ministry said the baby is one of “a number of children” who have presented with symptoms consistent with polio in recent days. https://www.commondreams.org/news/polio-in-gaza
2024-05-01 Gaza Child Amputees Struggle to Recover Amid Israeli Destruction of Health System Thousands of Palestinian children who have lost limbs and suffered other debilitating injuries to Israeli bombs and bullets are struggling to recover due to the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and a lack of adequate treatment, medication, and equipment like wheelchairs, Save the Children said Tuesday.
The London-based international charity recently published an analysis concluding that “the rate of attacks on healthcare in Gaza has been higher than in any other recent conflict globally.” The group cited figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which found that more than 1,000 Gazan children had one or both legs amputated during just the first month of Israel’s 208-day assault on the besieged coastal enclave. Many more children—the exact number is unknown—have had limbs amputated since then in what UNICEF called “the world’s most dangerous place to be a child.”
“Our pediatric staff say they are seeing lots of children with injuries caused by explosive weapons who are suffering unimaginable physical and mental harm,” Xavier Joubert, Save the Children’s country director for Palestine, said in a statement Tuesday. https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-child-amputees
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