Health

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

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. more

Gaza: Parents line up to protect their children from polio amid ongoing Israel-Hamas crisis

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 ch ...

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

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 ...

War and health crisis in Gaza a ‘recipe for epidemics’ warns WHO

The thousands of injuries sustained by civilians across Gaza combined with a burgeoning public health crisis is a ‘recipe for epidemics’, the World Health Organization’s ...

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

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 P ...

Poverty compounding health challenges for Palestine refugees – UN agency

Nerw York: Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer and smoking-related ailments, account for the majority of the chronic health problems confronting Palestine ref ...

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