The spread of diseases in Gaza has reportedly increased, especially due to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern part of the enclave, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report.
About 180,000 people have been diagnosed with upper respiratory infections, with more than 136,000 cases of diarrhoea recorded among the population, OCHA noted. At least 55,400 cases of lice and scabies and 5,330 cases of chickenpox have also been recorded.
Moreover, the OCHA said that only 13 out of 36 of Gaza’s hospitals were partially functional, nine of them in the south.
“The four hospitals that are partially functional in the north have been offering maternity, trauma, and emergency care services,” it said, adding that those facilities continue to face shortages of medical staff, surgeons and intensive care staff.
Source: alJazeera
