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Non-governmental organization Save the children warned on Monday of the grave danger to which Women of Gaza To labor activity, because of serious sanitary conditions registered in Gaza

Non-governmental organization Save the children warned on Monday of the grave danger to which Women of Gaza To labor activity, because of serious sanitary conditions registered in Gaza Strip as progress is made Israeli offensivewhich began nine months ago and ended almost 38,200 dead.

The NGO pointed out that Some women living in the Gaza Strip decide to induce labor so as not to give light as they move in search of safety in the Palestinian enclave, others have fear of seeking vital prenatal care due to fears of explosions, the statement said.

They are believed to have been born in Gaza. 50 thousand babies since October last yearwhich led many women to childbirth in traumatic conditions, unhygienic and indecent, without access to basic services.

Women face significant challenges during pregnancy, including lack of food and clean water, frequent travel, loss of loved ones, and fear of injury or death.

Employees Save the children gave creditsupport for pregnant women, newborns and families at your primary health care center Deir al Bala, in central Gaza since May and reported “terrible conditions” wherein women who have given birth and newborns, who struggle to survive their perilous first weeks.

In this sense power outages pose an “extreme danger” to children in critical conditionespecially those who They depend on incubators.

Sharifa Khanmatron Department of Health Emergency Situations organization “Save the Children” said on this matter:

We have seen the impact of ongoing stress and suffering on women, with some taking drastic decisions such as inducing labour with drugs out of fear of losing their babies if they have to flee again to survive.

“We had a woman who was rushed to the Save the Children maternity ward with serious obstetric complications after self-medication before childbirth. We had another case where the mother gave birth without problems and was discharged the next day. However, he returned three days later when his The baby was lethargic, had a high fever, refused to breastfeed, and had a swollen umbilical cord that was oozing pus. This condition is typical only for places with poor hygiene and lack of drinking water. “Unfortunately, these are not isolated cases,” he lamented.

with him Gaza’s health system is in shambles and restrictions imposed on the work of humanitarian aid agencies, pregnant women and young mothers did not have access to basic health and nutrition services in accordance with international standards, according to Save the children.

This caused serious mental and physical harm to many mothers and their children, and some took Extreme measures To try to protect her future children, she is compiling a document.

“The Gaza Strip we see today is not a place to give birth to a child. It is an immeasurable political failure that this war has dragged on for nine months, the same amount of time it takes a mother to survive a full-term pregnancy, or a child to learn to crawl. Any woman who becomes pregnant during this time will know only fear, trauma, hardship and displacement.“He decided Rachel Cummingsleader of the group Save the children in Gaza.

We call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire as the only way to save lives in Gaza and put an end to the ongoing and serious violations of children’s rights. There is no alternative.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in October last year we counted several 50,000 pregnant women in GazaSince then, an average of about 5 thousand 522 births per month, a figure that includes both living and dead babies.

(according to information from Europe Press)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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