A few of Lebanon’s hospitals could run out of life-saving trauma medical kits inside days as supplies near depletion following mass casualties from large-scale Israeli strikes over the past day, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
The life-saving trauma kits include bandages, antibiotics and anesthetics to treat patients who sustained war-related injuries, the WHO stated.
“A number of the trauma management supplies were in brief (supply) and we may run out in just a few days,” Dr Abdinasir Abubakar the WHO’s representative in Lebanon told Reuters.
Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday after its biggest attacks of the war on its neighbor on Wednesday killed greater than 250 people and greater than 1,000 were injured, and threatened to torpedo Donald Trump’s truce from the outset.
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“If we’ve got one other mass casualty, like what happened yesterday, it is going to be a disaster,” Abubakar said.
“Probably we’ll lose more lives simply because we don’t have enough supplies,” he added.
Shortages of supplies of trauma kits have been driven by a surge in recent casualties – the vast majority of whom are civilians – with roughly three-weeks value of supplies being depleted in sooner or later, Abubakar stated.
Medicines to treat patients with chronic disease, reminiscent of insulin for diabetes patients, are also facing stock outs inside the weeks – after supply chains were disrupted following the war within the Gulf and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Abubakar said.