The United Nations warned of the spread of the virus in Gaza
| The United Nations has warned that viruses are spreading in the Gaza Strip amid poor sanitation and a lack of safe food and water supplies. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the United Nations has warned that viruses are spreading in the Gaza Strip in the midst of bad health conditions and a lack of food and drink resources, and in such a situation, Palestinians Gaza has limited access to health care to deal with this group of disease agents.
According to the United Nations, amid the continuous bombardment of the Zionist regime, viral diseases in overcrowded shelters in It is expanding. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, with overcrowding in the shelters, more than 8,000 cases of hepatitis A virus have been observed among the refugees.
In some cases, laboratories in hospitals are not able to perform patient tests due to the lack of necessary items. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, in a post on the X social network, announced the observation of more than a thousand cases of jaundice among Palestinian refugees.
The World Health Organization has stated that although hepatitis A is not fatal, it can easily be transmitted through contact with an infected person or through the use of contaminated water and food. Tedros Adhanom said that “inhumane living conditions” and lack of clean water have led to the spread of this type of hepatitis among people. The United Nations has also announced that about 60,000 pregnant women are at risk of not receiving adequate care in the event of complications from various diseases. This factor has caused hundreds of premature births and abortions to be reported since the start of the war.
According to the reports of the World Health Organization, based on the latest updates Taken, access to water in Gaza is decreasing every day and under the influence of this organization’s warnings, the current conditions of lack of sanitation and clean water increase the risk of more people contracting hepatitis A.
Simultaneously with the worsening of the situation, the conditions of receiving aid to the people of Gaza have also faced many problems. UNICEF Executive Vice President Ted Chaiban said after his three-day trip to Gaza that families there are “suffering from the most terrible conditions I have ever seen” and cases of diarrhea have intensified, especially among children.
During the last two months, the cases of diarrhea have also increased by 40% compared to the beginning of the war. According to the vice president of UNICEF, by mid-December, 71,000 children under 5 years of age have contracted viral diarrhea, and their number has increased by 4,000 percent compared to the beginning of the war.
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