{"id":205345,"date":"2014-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205345"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:58:01","slug":"auto-insert-205345","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205345\/","title":{"rendered":"Health needs escalate as crisis in Gaza continues – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Population Fund dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DISPATCH<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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24 July 2014<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Health needs escalate as crisis in Gaza continues<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS, New York<\/strong> – On Monday, 21 July, the home and maternal health clinic of Feeza Shraim, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA-supported midwife in the Gaza Strip, were destroyed in an airstrike.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ms. Shraim – who has worked with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA as a midwife, trainer and advocate since 2004 – had been operating the clinic out of her home. Since the start of the crisis, she had assisted about 30 pregnant women.<\/p>\n

No patients were in the facility at the time, though Ms. Shraim and 14 members of her family were at home. They are now staying with friends in Gaza City.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ms. Shraim established her clinic in part to provide maternal care to women in times of conflict, when health services often become inaccessible. “There were a lot of bombardments in Beit Hanoun,” she said in an interview in 2010. “There were no delivery homes or delivery clinics… During each incursion, I delivered 30 to 40 cases.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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During the 2008-2009 assault on Gaza, her clinic offered both medical and psychological services, and delivered more than 50 babies. Ms. Shraim was named a Friends of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA International Honoree for the Health and Dignity of Women and Girls, in recognition of the life-saving care she provided during that crisis.
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The destruction of Ms. Sharim’s clinic only exacerbates the enormous and rapidly growing need for maternal and reproductive health services in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Over 140,000 people have been displaced by the hostilities, according to the most recent figures from theÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA estimates that, among those displaced, there are 25,000 women of reproductive age and 5,000 pregnant women.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Other health facilities have also sustained damage. On 21 July, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir El-Balah was hit in an airstrike, resulting in a major disruption of services, including maternal and reproductive health care.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Despite the significant constraints of operating during the ongoing hostilities, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA is working with partners to provide essential assistance and supplies to those in need.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA is procuring urgently needed drugs, supplies and equipment, and is developing a strategy to map the locations of pregnant women and health professionals in Gaza to strengthen community-based maternal health services.<\/p>\n

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA is also putting together dignity kits containing hygiene supplies and other items to distribute to affected families.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Working with Y-Peer, a network of young leaders, and others, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA is supporting psychosocial outreach efforts. However, these activities are currently limited due to the security situation. A more robust programme can commence only after the hostilities cease.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Related resources<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA Alarmed Over Devastating Impact of Gaza Violence on Women, Girls<\/u><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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DISPATCH 24 July 2014 Health needs escalate as crisis in Gaza continues Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵITED NATIONS, New York – On Monday, 21 July, the home and maternal health clinic of Feeza Shraim, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA-supported midwife in the Gaza Strip, were destroyed in an airstrike. Ms. Shraim – who has worked with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFPA as a midwife, trainer and advocate […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2453],"document-source":[2337],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,2033,2005,2533,5200,2613,2365,2349,3589,1841],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-205345","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-article","document-source-united-nations-population-fund-unfpa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-children","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-internally-displaced-persons","document-subject-international-presence","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-population","document-subject-women","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/205345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=205345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}