Limiting dissemination of COVID-19 in Gaza Strip

Still after more than one year of its trasnmission, COVID19 is still on top of all emergencies,andit is putting more burden on the Palestinian community in the Gaza Strip in general, and on the health sector particularly. The COVID19 had its bad consequences in light of the declining in the availability of medication and disposables within the already fragile health system.

Adding to this, positivity in the oPt is still high at 17.63%, due to the high positivity rate in Gaza despite the significant decrease in the West Bank , and the Positivity in the oPt is increasing (6.93 in West Bank and 11.3 in Gaza Strip) Rt is currently at 1.03 according to WHO report issued on Dec. 2021.

Same report stated that New COVID-19 infections are registered leading to an increase in the number of cases across oPt. Gaza Strip leads by ratio of 42.1% of all active cases, while Ramallah takes the lead in number of cases in the West Bank (15.2%) 

This intervention came to confront COVID19 by protecting the medical team, workers and patients in Al Awda Hospital and contribute to decreasing the transmission of COVID19 by providing them with PPE's and will conduct COVID19 rapid test according to the MoH protocols followed recently.

The provision of essential services required imposing safety measures and precaution procedures, and the beneficiaries of the intervention during this reporting period from Oct. 2021 until Jan. 2022, were 23,817 classified as follows:

 -(1812) beneficiaries from the Emergency department.

- (1522) beneficiaries from the maternity department.

- (19346) beneficiaries from the outpatient clinic services.

- (1137) beneficiaries from the surgical department.

 Without applying the safety measures, we would not be able to provide the needed services for beneficiaries and protecting them from the being infected from COVID19.

Links:

• UHWC Website