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WHO support reaches flood victims in Ghat, southern Libya
WHO worked with local authorities and other partners to send medical supplies to Ghat after the southwestern Libyan town was hit by floods Ghat, Libya, 9 June — WHO has provided emergency and laboratory health supplies, scaled up disease surveillance, and deployed medical staff to support people affected by floods in the southwestern Libyan town of...
As health worker deaths mount, WHO condemns another 'dark day' in Libya
Tripoli, 24 May 2019 — The World Health Organization strongly condemns the death and injury of health workers rushing to rescue people who have been wounded during armed conflict in Libya's capital. Two health workers were killed and three others injured on 23 May when two clearly-marked ambulances were struck in the Triq Al Matar area of...
WHO distributes urgently needed medical supplies as Libya conflict continues
The supplies were funded by the governments of Germany and Italy, as well as the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the Central Emergency Response Fund of the United Nations 21 May 2019, Tripoli, Libya—WHO has delivered medicines and medical supplies to health facilities across Libya to meet shortages amid intense conflict in the...
WHO denounces attack on health workers and ambulance in Libyan capital
Tripoli, 9 May – The World Health Organization today condemned in the strongest terms an attack on an ambulance in Tripoli, Libya, on Wednesday 8 May, that left 3 health workers injured, one severely. “This attack on an ambulance with visible logos is a shocking and intolerable violation of international humanitarian law,” said Dr Syed Jaffar...
WHO Libya teams saving lives on Tripoli’s front lines
As casualties mount due to violence in Tripoli, WHO's emergency medical teams help hospital staff operate on the woundedTripoli, 30 April—As the violent conflict in Libya’s capital continues, WHO is deploying medical specialists to hospitals to help them cope with the mounting casualties. WHO Libya is also coordinating the distribution of...
Displaced by war, Tripoli residents wait in limbo
Dr Mohamed Hashem of WHO Libya assesses the needs of a health facility that will serve displaced familiesTripoli, April 29, 2019--As residents of Libya’s war-torn capital fled bombings in their neighbourhoods, “they felt their blood pressure was raised because of the stress, the sound of the rockets and gunfire,” says Mohamed Hashem, a WHO...
