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Summary of Humanitarian Health Needs and Response Activities
Humanitarian Health Needs
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Trauma and emergency healthcare services, including early post-operative rehabilitation for thousands of injured.
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Procurement of trauma and emergency care drugs, medical disposables, laboratory supplies, medical kits, and equipment which are in critical shortage.
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Electricity or fuel supplies at key hospitals and for ambulance services to continue providing lifesaving services.
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Access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services to the general affected population, especially women, children, chronic illness patients and survivors of GBV.
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Additional bed capacity and human resources to support case management.
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Disease surveillance due to significant risk of outbreaks because of lack of adequate water and sanitation, overcrowded shelters.
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Mental health and psychosocial support to the highly traumatized population.
Priority Response Activities
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Maximize and support the service delivery capacity at pre-hospital, hospital, and posthospital levels of trauma care.
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Provide early access to multidisciplinary postoperative care and rehabilitation services for the injured.
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Deploy Emergency Medical Teams to key hospitals and establish three field hospitals.
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Provide fuel to key hospitals, primary healthcare centres, and ambulance services.
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Maximize and support the existing capacity and provision of essential primary and secondary healthcare services, including treatment of adult and childhood illnesses, management of non-communicable diseases, preventive, and curative nutrition interventions, sexual and reproductive health, maternal, newborn and child health services and clinical management of GBV survivors.
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Re-establish referral pathways to outside the Gaza Strip.
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Scale-up early warning alert and response, disease surveillance, diagnostic and response capacity for communicable diseases.
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Provide mental health and psychosocial support to the affected population and provide psychotropic medicines to those with mental health disorders.
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Maintain essential supplies at community and facility levels.