The Gaza Strip is facing a humanitarian crisis with urgent healthcare needs. Trauma and emergency care services are required for thousands of injured individuals, including early post-operative rehabilitation. There is also a critical shortage of trauma and emergency care drugs, medical disposables, laboratory supplies, medical kits, and equipment that need to be procured. Furthermore, electricity or fuel supplies at key hospitals and ambulance services are necessary to continue providing life-saving services.
In addition to trauma and emergency care, access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services is vital for the general affected population. This includes treating adult and childhood illnesses, managing non-communicable diseases, providing preventive and curative nutrition interventions, sexual and reproductive health services, maternal, newborn, and child health services, and clinical management of gender-based violence survivors. It is also important to re-establish referral pathways outside of the Gaza Strip and scale up early warning alert and response as well as disease surveillance and diagnostic capacity for communicable diseases. Providing mental health and psychosocial support to the affected population is also crucial.
To address these needs, priority response activities include maximizing service delivery capacity at pre-hospital, hospital, post-hospital levels of trauma care. Providing early access to multidisciplinary postoperative care and rehabilitation services for the injured is essential. Emergency Medical Teams need to be deployed to key hospitals as well as establishing three field hospitals in order to increase capacity in providing life-saving services. Providing fuel supply to key hospitals primary healthcare centers ambulance services is also a priority. Additionally it’s important to maintain essential supplies at the community level in order to address the ongoing humanitarian health needs in the region.
The situation in Gaza requires immediate action from international organizations and governments worldwide who must provide support in form of funding or resources that will help alleviate this crisis. The humanitarian situation in Gaza must be addressed urgently before it worsens further resulting in more casualties among innocent civilians who have been caught up in this conflict.
It’s worth noting that while humanitarian aid has been sent previously but unfortunately not all has reached its intended destination due various reasons such as restrictions imposed by Israel on goods entering into Gaza strip which makes it difficult for aid organizations like Doctors without Borders , International Committee of Red Cross etc.. These restrictions must be lifted so that aid can reach those who need it most.
In conclusion, addressing the current humanitarian crisis requires an urgent response from all stakeholders involved including governments worldwide , international organizations , NGO’S etc.. We cannot allow innocent people suffering anymore due lack of basic necessities like medicine , food , water etc.. It’s time we come together as one global community to make sure everyone has access
