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WHO says newborns in Gaza dying because too low birth weight

WHO says newborns in Gaza dying because too low birth weight

The World Health Organization on Tuesday mentioned the consequences of hunger within the Gaza Strip are getting heavier every day as medical doctors and medical workers are seeing “newborn babies simply dying because they’re too low birth weight.”

“They’re seeing the pregnant women who are coming in also underweight and suffering, the complications that occur if you are trying to carry a pregnancy and you are you lack the nutrition,” WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris instructed a UN press briefing in Geneva.

“Increasingly, we’re seeing children that are at the point brink of death through starvation that need refeeding and our work now is setting up malnutrition stabilization centers,” Harris mentioned.

She added that they already set one up within the South and now they’re wanting ahead to doing the identical within the North.

But, she added, to have the ability to arrange such facilities they might want to carry the supplies in at a scale that’s not attainable proper now “without access and safety.”

Israel has waged a lethal navy offensive on Gaza since a cross-border incursion by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed practically 1,200 individuals.

More than 31,800 Palestinians, principally girls and kids, have since been killed within the enclave, and practically 74,000 others injured, moreover inflicting mass destruction and displacement.

Famine is imminent in Gaza, based on the UN company for Palestinian refugees, which says that solely sustained entry and extra provides will save lives.

Source: www.anews.com.tr