Urgent Addressing of Humanitarian Health Needs: Trauma Care, Primary Healthcare, Disease Prevention, and Mental Health Support

The current humanitarian health crisis requires urgent attention to trauma and emergency healthcare services. There is a critical shortage of trauma care drugs, medical supplies, laboratory equipment, and medical kits. Hospitals and ambulance services 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.

Access to essential primary and secondary healthcare services is vital for the general population, especially vulnerable groups such as women, children, chronic illness patients, and survivors of gender-based violence. Additional bed capacity and human resources are needed to support the management of cases. Disease surveillance is crucial to prevent outbreaks due to poor water and sanitation conditions in overcrowded shelters.

Mental health and psychosocial support are also necessary for the highly traumatized population. Reestablishing referral pathways and scaling up disease surveillance and response capacity for communicable diseases are crucial to prevent outbreaks. Providing mental health and psychotropic medicines to those with mental health disorders are key response activities.

To ensure continued service delivery at community and facility levels, maintaining essential supplies is important. This includes not only medication but also medical equipment, laboratory supplies, personal protective equipment (PPE), hygiene products, food aid, clean water supply etc.

In summary, addressing the current humanitarian health needs revolves around trauma care services, primary healthcare accessibility, disease prevention measures including mental health support. It requires an urgent intervention that prioritizes bed capacity increase