‘Gaza Is at Breaking Point’: Health Workers and Patients Describe an Unfolding Catastrophe in Rafah for women's and maternal health
Dr. Mohamed Ragab attends to Haneen, who is eight months pregnant. The ob-gyn has set up his practice in a displacement camp in Rafah, in southern Gaza, where he receives up to 70 women every day. Dr. Mohamed Ragab used to work as a gynecologist and obstetrician at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. But after the health center wasin February 2023, up to 70 women a day now visit the doctor in a tent set up at a camp for 40,000 displaced people in Rafah.
“I am very tired; a pregnant woman is naturally tired during pregnancy while in her own home, let alone with life like it currently is,” she told UNFPA. “The lack of bathrooms and essential items—it all makes the whole situation unbearable.”have been displaced in Gaza, with an estimated 1.5 million crowded into Rafah.
“There is a shortage of important medications for women, like Clexane or Heparin, that should be available and can save lives. I am supposed to provide these medications to women, but I can’t,” said Ragab.Where possible, UNFPA is providing supplies to support the sexual and reproductive health needs of Gaza’s women and girls.
Tens of thousands of maternity, dignity, menstrual hygiene and reproductive health kits have also been distributed and psychosocial counseling and gender-based violence awareness sessions are being held, particularly aimed at young people and women who are most at risk of abuse.are surging.
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