{"id":83166,"date":"2023-11-20T04:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/gaza-on-verge-of-major-disease-outbreak-world-health-organisation-warns-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T04:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T04:10:55","slug":"gaza-on-verge-of-major-disease-outbreak-world-health-organisation-warns-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/gaza-on-verge-of-major-disease-outbreak-world-health-organisation-warns-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza on verge of major disease outbreak, World Health Organisation warns | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gaza is on the “precipice of major disease outbreaks”, the World Health Organisation has said<\/p>\n

With 800,000 people crammed into overcrowded schools and other “collective centres”, skin infections including scabies are being found, along with jaundice and diarrhoea, the WHO said.<\/p>\n

There is one toilet for several hundred people and “open defecation”, regional emergency director Richard Brennan told Sky News.<\/p>\n

Follow latest: 31 babies evacuated from al Shifa are ‘threatened by serious infections’<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the schools were designed to accept displaced people, their populations are six to eight times what they were intended to cater for. Others are living in tents.<\/p>\n

Each person has one to three litres of clean water per day, when the accepted minimum in a humanitarian crisis is seven litres, Mr Brennan said.<\/p>\n

There are “chest infections, respiratory infections”, while cases of jaundice “give concern for hepatitis”.<\/p>\n

He added: “We could be on the precipice of major disease outbreaks. Putting in disease control efforts in these overcrowded, unsanitary contexts is incredibly difficult.”<\/p>\n

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Of the 36 hospitals in Gaza, 22 are out of action, Mr Brennan said, adding that before the conflict began, 3,500 beds were available. Now, it is down to 1,400.<\/p>\n

Many families are subsisting on one meal a day. In addition, colder weather is on the way.<\/p>\n

“The next few weeks are going to be very tough indeed,” Mr Brennan added.<\/p>\n

Referring to the 31 premature babies evacuated from al Shifa hospital<\/strong> and taken to southern Gaza, Mr Brennan said they were likely to travel on to Egypt in the next day or two, depending on their condition.<\/p>\n

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While Mr Brennan described it as “one of the few good news stories of the war so far”, he added: “We don’t know where any of the parents are, how many of them are orphans.”<\/p>\n

Many are very low in weight, they all have serious infections and 11 are classed as in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The WHO is working with authorities to try to trace their parents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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