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Health Cluster Ukraine: Winter Response Plan Update (Dec 2024)

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Key Activities

• Ensure a safe and warm environment for staff and patients. Ensure uninterrupted health service delivery. Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE). Equip health workers and communities to manage cold-related injuries and infections.

Cost of no response

• Without a comprehensive winter health response, prolonged power outages in health-care facilities will deny patients access to life-saving medical services.

• Power outages and insufficient funding for generators and heating systems will leave health facilities unable to provide essential services, such as surgeries, emergency care, and vaccine storage, jeopardizing patient safety.

• A lack of resources to address cold-related illnesses will lead to preventable deaths and worsening health conditions among the most vulnerable.

• Service gaps may force vulnerable populations to migrate in search of health care, increasing displacement and exposing them to further risks.

• Completed the mapping of some 17 Health Partners for Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPREP). Partners able and ready to deploy in response to sudden onset emergencies (Cluster reporting activity HE 101, and HE 104)

• Cluster monitoring visits conducted to 3 partner projects within the period of Jan to April in x oblasts. Feedback provided to the partners for continued adaptation of the response.

• Inclusion of 2 Volunteer organizations working with the local authorities to work with/inform the cluster of activities.
Volunteers playing a huge role in community interventions and last-mile delivery activities.