The current humanitarian health needs revolve around trauma and emergency healthcare services, particularly for those who have been injured. There is a critical shortage of trauma and emergency care drugs, medical supplies, laboratory equipment, and medical kits. Hospitals and ambulance services also lack sufficient electricity or fuel supplies to continue providing lifesaving services. Access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services is essential for the general population, especially vulnerable groups such as women, children, chronic illness patients, and survivors of gender-based violence.
To address these needs, priority response activities include maximizing and supporting trauma care services at pre-hospital, hospital, and post-hospital levels. Providing early access to postoperative care and rehabilitation services is crucial for the injured. Establishing Emergency Medical Teams at key hospitals and setting up field hospitals are also key response activities. Ensuring fuel supply to hospitals, primary healthcare centers, and ambulance services is essential for continued service provision. Additionally, supporting the capacity of existing primary and secondary healthcare services is a high priority. This includes treatment of illnesses such as malnutrition or infectious diseases; management of non-communicable diseases like diabetes or hypertension; nutrition interventions; sexual and reproductive health services; maternal and child health services; care for GBV survivors; referral pathways that connect patients with specialists or other facilities when necessary; scaling up disease surveillance capacity for communicable diseases like COVID-19 or Ebola; reestablishing referral pathways that connect patients with specialists or other facilities when necessary; supporting mental health care by providing psychotropic medications to those with mental health disorders as well as psychosocial support to help cope with trauma. Lastly, maintaining essential supplies at community and facility levels is important for continued service delivery.
The situation requires urgent action from governments, international organizations, NGOs
