War-torn Gaza faces rising child health threats: Hepatitis and skin diseases surge amid water crisis
Sunday, 11 August 2024 In Gaza, children faced severe health issues, including hepatitis and skin ailments, due to a lack of clean water. The ongoing conflict damaged essential infrastructure like desalination plants and water wells. Humanitarian efforts to restore clean water have been hindered, leading to increased disease cases. The UN reported restoring electricity to a desalination plant to aid people, but risks remain high.
Due to continued military operations perpetrated by the IDF, refugees have been forced to flee to now overcrowded areas of the Gaza Strip. As a result itβs now being reported that water contamination and skin diseases are running rampant amongst Palestinians. Veuerβs Tony Spitz has the details.
When 10-month-old Abdel Rahman Abu al-Jedian contracted polio in July, he became the Gaza Strip's first case of the disease in 25 years. It had previously been detected in water in the war-torn..
Sunday, 11 August 2024
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