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National workshop on adapting WHO/UNICEF guidelines on integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness for Libya
On 22 October 2019, the WHO and UNICEF country offices in Libya, in collaboration with the Libyan Ministry of Health, opened a workshop to adapt WHO/UNICEF guidelines on the integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness (IMNCI) to the Libyan context. IMNCI is an integrated approach to neonatal and child health that focuses on the...
WHO provides support for treatment of leishmaniasis in Libya
WHO staff member Dr Abdelaziz Alahlafi meets Faris Hasan following his treatment for visceral leishmaniasis. Credit:...
WHO sends life-saving medical supplies across Libya
A WHO Libya staff member checks boxes of supplies used to treat injured people. WHO regularly ships medical supplies to all areas of Libya Tripoli, 9 September 2019—WHO is delivering urgently needed medicines and medical supplies to more than 40 primary health care centres and referral hospitals across Libya. The supplies, which are enough to treat...
Protecting Libya's children from measles and polio
WHO works with Libya's Ministry of Health to create awareness-raising materials about the importance of vaccination. In early 2019, when a seriously ill one-year-old boy arrived at his hospital in Tripoli, Dr Hamza Khalifa saw that his sickness was more than a common cold. “His mother’s concern was his high fever. He was really unwell,” says Dr...
On the alert: WHO trains Libyans to prevent and control deadly diseases
Hussein Awami, a disease surveillance officer in Benghazi, holds a form used when specimens are sent to laboratories to be tested for polio22 August 2019 – “I feel like I’m a health policeman, protecting people,” says Hussein Awami, a health worker in Benghazi, eastern Libya. “I want to protect my country from polio and all infectious diseases.” A disease...
Conflict in southern Libya: WHO sends medical aid
From a warehouse in Tripoli, medical supplies were dispatched to Murzuq in southern Libya. Tripoli, 20 August—In response to violence and displacement in the south of Libya, WHO has dispatched emergency medical supplies for the wounded and activated its disease surveillance systems to prevent outbreaks. In recent weeks, tensions between different groups...
