The World Health Organization has dispatched essential medical supplies, including emergency health, trauma, surgical and noncommunicable disease kits, to the town of Tarhouna, 65 kilometres southeast of Tripoli, and Baniwaleed, 180 kilometres southwest of Tripoli. WHO had delivered 6 trauma kits and 3 surgical supply kits to Tarhouna in April.
In addition to the supplies, medical teams are also being deployed. A team of six surgeons deployed by WHO carried out 749 operations in April 2020 alone in Tarhouna . And there are plans to deploy an emergency medical team to Baniwaleed, to strengthen health care services in the town.
Hostilities have hampered the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plans to establish 100 isolation beds have been put on hold due to ongoing insecurity.
WHO is monitoring the situation closely and remains in close contact with its field coordinator inside Tarhouna and with the National Centre for Disease Control. WHO will also participate in inter-agency humanitarian convoys to Tarhouna once the situation stabilizes.
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