Overview

In this edition of WHO’s Operational Update on Health Emergencies, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include:

• Ensuring access to lifesaving essential health care services in the occupied Palestinian territory
• Israel’s health system responds to the October 2023 attacks
• WHO provides emergency support to the Armenia refugee response
• Supporting the response to the earthquakes in Herat, Afghanistan
• WHO/EURO holds a face-to-face training on Early Warning, Alert and Response (EWAR) in Emergencies in the Czech Republic
• Health Resource Availability Monitoring System (HeRAMS): Operational status of the health system in Ukraine
• GOARN holds its first leadership training
• Enhancing early outbreak analytics to support better decision-making: the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence holds a ground-breaking hackathon
• Enhancing preparedness through Barbados Defence Forces’ Mobile Field Hospital
• Malawi launches its first training for frontline responders for health emergencies and disasters
• WHO offers a Basic Emergency Care course in the Republic of Moldova to boost clinical care capacities for emergency preparedness and response
• WHO Global Logistics Centers’ Monthly Update
• OpenWHO: providing quality and up-to-date learning on clinical management during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic