Janah, 7, in need of medical evacuation

Olga Cherevko,, a spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, says she first met Janah in 2024 at an International Medical Corps field hospital where she was treated malnutrition. Janah recovered and returned to her family.

But recently, Cherevko saw her again at Patient Friendly Hospital, her condition worse than before. “I remembered her long eyelashes,” Cherevko said.

Janah is now on a list of children who need medical evacuation because her condition can’t be properly diagnosed and treated in Gaza.

On Wednesday, August 13, the World Health Organization helped transfer 32 children and six adults to Italy, Belgium and Turkey, but more than 14,800 patients are still waiting.

Cherevko says some of the most seriously ill patients, including Janah, have medical issues in addition to malnutrition, but those problems were manageable before the famine.

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