The World Health Organization warned on Thursday of a shortage of water, sanitation, and hygiene products amid overcrowding at the Emirates Crescent Maternity Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

This came in a post accompanied by a video clip regarding the conditions inside the Emirati Crescent Maternity Hospital in Rafah, and the United Nations published it on its account via the “X” platform.

The World Health Organization said, “The reality is stark, and the overcrowded hospital is struggling to provide adequate care for newborns and mothers.”

She stressed that “the hospital suffers from a lack of water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene products, which may threaten the lives of newborns.”

Yesterday, Wednesday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of the consequences of any Israeli action on the city of Rafah.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women.

In addition to the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before the International Court of Justice to be tried on charges of genocide.

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The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that “more people in Gaza are dying from disease than from (Israeli) bombing as a result of the lack of health care” in the Strip.

The organization’s Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a post on the “X” platform: “Given the living conditions and lack of health care, a greater number of people could die from diseases than from the Israeli bombing.”

Ghebreyesus explained that there is a “high risk of disease outbreak” in Gaza.

He stressed: “We need a permanent ceasefire now,” explaining that this is “a matter of life and death for civilians.”

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The Director General of Gaza Hospitals, Muhammad Zaqout, said on Monday that “the Israeli occupation is carrying out a direct execution of the wounded and sick in hospitals” in the Gaza Strip.

This came in press statements carried by the platforms of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

Zaqout explained that “the occupation has exhausted hospitals in the north and south of the Gaza Strip,” noting that “the occupation is carrying out direct executions of the wounded and sick in hospitals.”

He added: “There are 260 wounded in Al-Shifa Medical Complex (west of Gaza City), one of whom dies every day,” explaining that the Indonesian hospital, in turn, includes “thousands of displaced people and about 200 medical staff.”

Earlier Monday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that “12 people were martyred and dozens injured” as a result of an Israeli bombing targeting the Indonesian hospital, while it was surrounded by dozens of military vehicles and artillery, according to identical testimonies.

The Palestinian Ministry warned in a statement that “the Israeli occupation forces are placing thousands of wounded, medical personnel, and displaced persons in the cycle of death as a result of the direct and repeated targeting of the Indonesian Hospital.”

For his part, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in press statements that “the Israeli occupation is seeking to put the Indonesian hospital completely out of service,” while “the medical staff in the hospital insist on staying to treat the wounded.”

He added, “There are about 700 people, including medical teams and wounded, inside the Indonesian hospital,” according to what was reported on the Telegram page of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Al-Qudra described the situation in the Indonesian hospital as “catastrophic,” explaining that “the occupation is intensifying its attacks on the hospital and besieging it.”

He continued: “We fear that (the Israeli army) will repeat what it did to the Al-Shifa Complex,” referring to the Israeli practices aimed at evacuating the Indonesian Hospital and other hospitals in the northern and central Gaza Strip of patients, injured and displaced people.

Yesterday, a medical source at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, who requested to remain anonymous for security reasons, said, “The World Health Organization will evacuate on Monday all 250 people remaining in Al-Shifa Hospital: 25 medical staff and 225 displaced persons and patients who were unable to evacuate due to their inability to walk.” “.

At dawn last Wednesday, the Israeli army stormed the Al-Shifa complex after besieging it for days, as it contained civilians displaced from their homes as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing in the area, and forced everyone inside to evacuate during the past days.

For 45 days, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 13,000 Palestinians dead, including more than 5,500 children and 3,500 women, in addition to more than 30,000 injured, 75 percent of whom are children and women, according to the government media office in Gaza.

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The Director General of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, Sobhi Skaik, said on Thursday that 4 cancer patients lost their lives as a result of the hospital being completely out of service.

The Turkish Friendship Hospital is the only one designated for treating cancer patients in Gaza, and it is located at a point close to the area into which Israeli forces entered on Monday morning before retreating to areas close to the eastern border of the Strip.

The Turkish government funded the construction of the hospital (2011-2017), which is one of the largest hospitals in Palestine with an area of 34,800 square meters, consisting of 3 floors and containing 180 beds.

Skaik said in statements, “Four cancer patients lost their lives today as a result of the Turkish Friendship Hospital stopping and being completely out of service due to the crisis of running out of fuel.”

He added, “The deaths occurred due to the lack of necessary medical capabilities.”

He explained that “all patients (from Turkish Friendship) were transferred to Dar Al Salam Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.”

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced the cessation of work at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which specializes in treating cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.

This came in a post by the organization’s Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the “X” platform, in which he called for “urgent support to save lives.”

Ghebreyesus stated that the hospital is currently out of service due to a lack of fuel and air strikes in its vicinity.

Earlier Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that stopping services at the main cancer hospital in the Gaza Strip due to running out of fuel would put the lives of 70 patients at risk.

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Healthcare workers in the Turkish capital, Ankara, protested against the World Health Organization’s silence regarding the Israeli attacks on Gaza.

A group of health care workers gathered on Saturday in front of the World Health Organization office in Ankara.

The protesters raised banners with the phrases “There is genocide in Gaza” and “You cannot remain silent when children die.”

Specialist doctor Muhammad Ali Ekshi spoke on behalf of the group, criticizing the silence of the World Health Organization regarding what is happening in Gaza.

Ekshi addressed the organization by saying: “Why are you silent while genocide is being committed, phosphorus bombs are falling on civilians, hospitals and ambulances are being targeted, and hundreds of health care workers and doctors are losing their lives”!?

He called for the opening of a humanitarian corridor to Gaza and the immediate delivery of medical aid sent to hospitals.

For 22 days, Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip, which it called “Iron Swords,” which destroyed entire neighborhoods and left 7,703 martyrs, including 3,195 children and 1,863 women, in addition to 19,743 who sustained various injuries.

During the same period, the Hamas movement killed more than 1,400 Israelis and wounded 5,132, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health. It also captured more than 220 Israelis, including high-ranking military personnel, and wants to exchange them for more than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women.

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Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca discussed with World Health Organization officials the possible aid to be sent to the Gaza Strip.

This came in a post by the Turkish Minister on the “X” platform on Wednesday, in which he explained that the Turkish Ministry of Health had begun moving to provide health services in Gaza, and in this regard, it was continuing talks with international health organizations.

He added that after the “heinous attack on the National Baptist Hospital in Gaza,” he made phone calls with many international officials, including senior officials at the World Health Organization.

He stressed that the most prominent point in his talks centered on the fact that “it is not acceptable to target institutions that serve human health under any circumstances or with any justification.”

He pointed out his country’s readiness “to send a floating hospital to the region or establish field hospitals in Gaza or near the Rafah crossing to provide health services to our Palestinian brothers.”

He added that he discussed with the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, the need to support health services in the region urgently and decisively, expressing Turkey’s readiness to cooperate with it in this regard.

He stressed the historical responsibility of World Health in this regard, adding that “the director of the organization’s regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Al-Mandhari, received the Turkish views positively during the call.”

On Tuesday, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said that more than 500 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli bombing that targeted the courtyard of the National Arab “Baptist” Hospital in Gaza.

They had fled to the hospital and its surroundings under the weight of warnings and calls from the Israeli army to evacuate their homes.

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The World Health Organization announced a 38 percent increase in coronavirus cases in August compared to the previous month, and that more than 1.4 million cases were reported worldwide.

The World Health Organization published its epidemiological update report on Saturday.

According to the report, in the 28-day period from July 31 to August 27, more than 1.4 million new cases of Corona and more than 1,800 deaths due to the virus were reported.

Compared to the previous 28-day period, there was a 38 percent increase in infection cases and a 50 percent decrease in the death rate.

According to the report, the reported cases do not accurately reflect infection rates due to a decrease in testing and reporting globally.

According to World Health Organization data, more than 770 million cases of Corona and 6 million 956 thousand deaths due to the epidemic have been reported around the world.

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Gulf countries recommended not to travel to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea due to the “outbreak” of the deadly Marburg virus.

This came in official statements issued by the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain on Saturday evening, the day after a similar recommendation from Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman.

And “Marburg”, the death rate of those infected with it reaches 88 percent, and it spreads through contact with the blood, secretions, organs, or any other fluids from his body, contaminated surfaces or materials, and last March, 8 people died in Equatorial Guinea, with a follow-up of 34 contact according to the World Health Organization.

And the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday that it “advises citizens of the country to postpone travel at the present time to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea, after they announced the detection of outbreaks of Marburg virus disease.”

The UAE called on “its citizens who are there to take caution and follow the safety instructions issued by the competent authorities.”

In Kuwait, the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs recommended, in two separate statements on Saturday, to “avoid traveling to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea at the present time, and until the announcement of the control of that virus, based on what was announced by the health authorities in these two countries in monitoring outbreaks of the virus.”

The two ministries recommended that their citizens “in those countries and neighboring countries need to follow the preventive measures announced by the local health authorities and take the necessary preventive measures.”

In Bahrain, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called, in a statement on Saturday, “all citizens not to travel at the present time to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea, in order to ensure their safety and preserve their health, after they announced an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in them.”

And on Friday, the Saudi Public Health Authority recommended, according to a statement, to avoid traveling to the two African countries until the disease is “controlled.”

And on Thursday, the Omani Ministry of Health said in a statement that “the virus is considered highly contagious, with a death rate of 60 to 80 percent,” stressing that “travel to these two countries will be postponed unless absolutely necessary, provided that the necessary health precautions are taken.”

The incubation period of the virus ranges from 2 to 21 days, and its most prominent symptoms include high fever, severe headache, severe malaise, severe watery diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramps, nausea, vomiting, and severe hemorrhagic symptoms, according to the World Health Organization.

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The World Health Organization is holding an “emergency” meeting on Friday to discuss the spread of monkeypox in a number of European and North American countries.

The Geneva-based organization’s announcement of the meeting came after confirming that Australia and Canada had recorded the first cases of this rare skin disease.

And the health authorities in Australia revealed this morning the first infection with the virus in the state of Victoria, adding that they are awaiting confirmation of a second infection in Sydney.

She explained that the confirmed infection of a person in his thirties who had just returned from Britain, adding that he had been isolated.

Yesterday evening, Canada revealed that it had recorded the first two cases of the disease in humans, after a series of cases of infection in Europe.

With the passage of days, the incidence of monkeypox increased, while the disease was also monitored in Britain, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, France and the United States.

Symptoms of the disease appear in the form of fever, swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches, fatigue, chills, and a chickenpox-like rash on the hands and face.

Infection with the disease results from direct contact with the blood of infected animals, their body fluids, their skin lesions, or their mucous fluids, according to the World Health Organization.

Secondary or human-to-human transmission can result from contact with skin lesions and droplets of an infected person as well as the use of common items such as bedding and towels.

Monkeypox is a form of smallpox, a disease that was eradicated in 1980. It is considered one of the least contagious and deadly, and its symptoms are milder.

The disease usually lasts for 2 to 4 weeks and symptoms can appear within 5 to 21 days after infection.

Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when a disease similar to smallpox appeared in laboratory monkeys, hence the name.

There are no specific medicines or vaccines available to combat monkeypox infection, but its symptoms can be controlled.

It was previously proven that vaccination against smallpox is 85% successful in preventing monkeypox, but this vaccine is no longer available to the general public after vaccination with it was stopped in the wake of the eradication of smallpox from the world.

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