The World Health Organization expressed concern about the risk of infectious and respiratory diseases spreading in the Gaza Strip
| While warning about the spread of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip, the Director General of the World Health Organization announced that 180,000 people have contracted inflammatory and respiratory infections in this area in the last two months. |
according to the international group Tasnim news agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebresus, the Director General of the World Health Organization, emphasized: “At the same time as the terrible and widespread migration of the residents of the Gaza Strip to the south of the region and some families being forced to move several times and turning to accommodation in overcrowded health centers, I and my colleagues at the World Health Organization, we are extremely concerned about the increasing threat of infectious diseases.” From mid-November to mid-December, he stated: nearly 180,000 people suffer from upper respiratory infections and 136,400 suffer from diarrhea, half of whom are children under the age of five, while 55,400 suffer from head lice. and scabies.
Also, 5 thousand 330 cases of chicken pox, 40 thousand 700 cases of skin diseases including 4 thousand 722 cases of herpes, 46834 thousand and 683 cases of acute jaundice and 126 cases of meningitis have been recorded. With the supply of drugs and laboratory equipment for the timely diagnosis of infectious diseases such as hepatitis and efforts to improve access to safe and secure water, food, sanitation and hygiene, they are constantly working.
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