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“Gaza is at breaking point”: Health workers and patients describe an unfolding catastrophe in Rafah
- 14 March 2024
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Resource date: Mar 2024
Author: UNFPA Haiti
Lack of access to menstrual hygiene products in Gaza is forcing many women and girls, like Bakiza (47) and her daughter, to take desperate measures.
See the impact of the support being delivered by UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
Women in Gaza have to give birth on the floor at the overcrowded Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah as doctors run out of basic medical supplies.
Let UNFPA Palestine Representative Dominic Allen describe the heroic efforts of desperate medical staff helping women give birth safely and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is supporting them.
Hospitals in the north of Gaza are barely functioning, with medical supplies and fuel running out.
Women are forced to undergo C- sections with only partial anaesthesia.
UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—just delivered critical medical supplies to Al Sahaba Hospital, the only functioning maternity hospital in Gaza City.
Hear from UNFPA Representative Dominic Allen about the desperate need he witnessed during a high-risk mission and stay up to date on our ongoing humanitarian response here.
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08 Mar 2024
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Resource date: Mar 2024
Publisher: UNFPA Sudan
Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine millions of women and girls are displaced and remain at risk of gender-based violence.
See how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency is responding.
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Resource date: Mar 2024
Publisher: UNFPA Palestine
Incubators at Al-Helal Al-Emirati Hospital in Gaza are full of babies with dead or missing parents. Hear from two doctors at the hospital about this tragic situation and see how UNFPA—the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency—is taking action.
Learn more about the crisis in Gaza here.