Meanwhile, UN agencies have confirmed the death of three Palestinians of Guillain-Barré (GBS) syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease that can cause sudden muscle and even paralysis.
Before the war had the war in Gaza in October 2023, only a handful of cases surfaced each year.
Mass mass now the standard
“Hospitals are overwhelmed by mass incidents, with an average of eight incidents per day”, “ said the United Nations Coordination Agency, Ochhaciting health partners.
In an update on the disastrous health crisis in Gaza, OCHA noted that specialized rehabilitation facilities were also overloaded with manipulation of complex trauma and Guillain-Barré cases.
To date, three deaths out of approximately 64 cases of SGB have been confirmed by the Gaza health authorities. Two of the deceased were children.
According to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), 30% of GBS patients need intensive care, but there is no available stock of the primary medication necessary to treat it, intravenous immunoglobulin.
Help flows are inadequate: WFP
In related development, the United Nations World Food Program (Wfp) Echo repeated calls for helping to flood in Gaza, as opposed to the very limited amounts authorized by the Israeli authorities.
“” We cannot put out our way to a current famine. Not in Gaza“, Insisted Cindy McCain, executive director of the WFP in an article on social networks on Wednesday evening.
The head of the United Nations agency stressed that “500,000 people are hungry today” and that the only way to help them is to make them large -scale food on the ground.
“We cannot afford to wait; Gaza is out of food and timeless, ”said Ms. McCain.
Destroyed
The destruction of the main WHO medical warehouse in an attack on Deir al-Balah at the end of last month continues to have an impact on rescue care.
In particular, the critical shortage of antibiotics has hampered the treatment of meningitis, whose figures are now in the hundreds – ” the highest number recorded since the start of climbing“Noted the Ocha update.
Isolation measures have been implemented, in particular the separation of the external service from the Al Khair hospital from the Nasser medical complex and the creation of isolation tents at the Al Aqsa hospital to safely manage suspicious cases.
Explosive weapons such as bombs and grenades represented 83% of medical consultations, said OCHA.
He cited NGOs Partners Doctors Without Borders (MSF) whose data covered more than 200,000 medical consultations in six health establishments supported by MSF in Gaza in 2024.
He cited NGOs Partners Doctors Without Borders (MSF) whose data covered more than 200,000 medical consultations in six health establishments supported by MSF in Gaza in 2024.
What is Guillain-Barré syndrome?
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a neurological and autoimmune disease that affects the nervous system and causes progressive muscle paralysis. It is not contagious and is often triggered by an anterior infection – viral or bacterial – which disturbs the immune system.
In most cases, patients can recover completely in a few weeks. But who pointed out that even in the best health establishments, three to five percent of patients die from complications of the disease, such as respiratory muscle paralysis, sepsis, pulmonary embolism or cardiac arrest.
There have been several epidemics of infectious diseases in Gaza Since the war broke out after the terrorist attacks led by Hamas in Israel, notably polio, cholera, hepatitis A and scabies.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
