The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates $10 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza’s devastated health system over the next seven years, highlighting the unprecedented scale of destruction.
Initial estimates indicate that at least $10 billion will be needed to rebuild Gaza’s devastated health system over the next five to seven years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
“There are processes currently ongoing by the World Bank, EU and UN, and governments to do … these assessments on each and every sector” which is still ongoing, said Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, in a virtual press conference.
Peeperkorn explained that early figures for the health sector were “about 3 billion over the next one and a half years and over the next six to seven years, only for health, something like 10 billion.”
Emphasizing the “massive” destruction In Gaza, he said, “I’ve never witnessed and never seen that anywhere else in my life.”
“All hospitals are either damaged or partly destroyed,” and the same applies to primary healthcare clinics as well, he stated.
Peeperkorn said the WHO will “remain very pragmatic in what we do,” adding that “the focus over the coming periods should remain very much on humanitarian support, also on health.”
