UNICEF: 20,000 children ‘born in hell’ in Gaza since war began
- January 19, 2024
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Near 20,000 children were “born in hell” According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Gaza Strip has seen one birth every ten minutes since the war
Near 20,000 children were “born in hell” According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Gaza Strip has seen one birth every ten minutes since the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began on October 7.
The UN agency reported on February 19 that “already precarious” situation with child mortality and maternal health in Gaza before the conflict worsened with the collapse of the health system, so he demanded “vigorous and immediate” action to rebuild it.
“Mothers face unimaginable difficulties in accessing medical care, nutrition and protection before, during and after childbirth,” UNICEF Representative Tess Ingram said today, highlighting that these conditions put mothers at risk of spontaneous abortion, premature birth, maternal and child mortality and multiple emotional trauma.
Ingram, who last week visited Rafah Emirate Hospital, where most pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are treated, said overcrowding and limited resources were forcing medical staff to discharge mothers just three hours after Caesarean sections.
In her testimony, she recalled cases such as that of Iman, a woman who fled Israeli bombing while eight months pregnant and who, after giving birth, was hospitalized with a serious infection and You can’t take care of your child.
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He also emphasized that the trauma of war directly affects newborns, leading to higher rates of malnutrition, developmental problems and other health complications.
“Watching newborns suffer and some mothers bleed to death should keep us all awake,” he said.
The UNICEF representative called for a “fundamental” humanitarian ceasefire for pregnant women, mothers and newborns, whose “inhumane” conditions she recalled caused by some 135,000 children under two years of age are at risk of severe malnutrition.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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