Israel-Palestine conflict: WHO alerts over 22,500 have suffered ‘life-changing injuries’ in Gaza

Sep 13, 2024, at 04:35 pm

More than 22,500 people – a quarter of those wounded in Gaza since Israel’s offensive began – have life-changing injuries, requiring rehabilitation services “now and for years to come”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.

Between fear and hope, parents in Gaza line up to protect their children from polio amid Israel-Hamas conflict

Sep 03, 2024, at 10:48 pm

If the UN-led polio vaccination campaign currently underway in Gaza is to be successful in halting the spread of a virus that has resurfaced in the Strip after 25 years, 90 per cent of children under the age of 10 need to be inoculated. UN News correspondent Ziad Taleb has been speaking to some of the concerned parents.

Polio vaccines arrive in Gaza days after first case reported in over two decades

Aug 27, 2024, at 03:32 pm

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Monday the arrival of 1.2 million doses of vital polio vaccines in Gaza, amid urgent calls for humanitarian pauses to reach hundreds of thousands of at-risk children.

Oxygen shortage 8 patients dead in besieged Gaza hospital, says minister

Feb 20, 2024, at 02:32 pm

Eight patients have died in a major hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Younis city after days of power outage and oxygen supply shortage due to continuous Israeli strikes on the facility, said Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila on Monday.

Gaza: Over a quarter of UNRWA centre patients needing mental health support

May 24, 2023, at 06:43 pm

New York: More than one in four patients screened in violence-afflicted Gaza at UN-run health centres, require mental health and psychosocial support, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday, publishing its annual overview.

Fuel crisis rapidly draining last ‘coping capacities’ of Palestinians in Gaza

Jan 23, 2019, at 10:08 am

New York, Jan 23 (IBNS): A worsening fuel crisis in the Gaza Strip enclave is putting patients’ lives at risk with power supplies for operating theaters under constant threat, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

Poverty compounding health challenges for Palestine refugees – UN agency

May 23, 2018, at 05:51 pm

Nerw York, May 23 (IBNS): Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer and smoking-related ailments, account for the majority of the chronic health problems confronting Palestine refugees across the Middle East, a new report by the United Nations agency which supports them, has found.