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UNFPA: 1.2 million displaced in Lebanon; maternal health services at risk as appeal is only 12% funded
Summary
Leila Bakr, UNFPA regional director for Arab States, told journalists that more than 1.2 million people have been displaced in Lebanon, that attacks have damaged health infrastructure, and that UNFPA’s $12 million flash appeal is only 12% funded, risking shutdowns of essential maternal services.
Leila Bakr, regional director for Arab States at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said the humanitarian situation in Lebanon has deteriorated sharply and warned that maternal and reproductive health services face imminent collapse without urgent funding.
“There are now over 1,200,000 people who’ve been displaced. 1,200,000 is 1 in 5 Lebanese,” Bakr said, and added that roughly 620,000 of those displaced are women and girls. She said UNFPA estimates about 13,500 pregnant women are among the displaced and that in southern Lebanon 1,700 pregnant women are currently cut off from essential maternal care. “Two hundred of them will give birth in the next 30 days,” she said.
Bakr said the health system has been directly affected by the fighting. “In the past…
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