The current humanitarian health needs focus on 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.
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, management of non-communicable diseases, nutrition interventions, sexual and reproductive health services, maternal and child health services, care for GBV survivors, referral pathways re-establishment and scaling up disease surveillance and response capacity for communicable diseases are crucial to prevent outbreaks.
Providing mental health and psychosocial support to the affected population is also essential as well as psychotropic medicines to those with mental health disorders. Lastly, maintaining essential supplies at community