Rick Brennan, the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean regional emergency director, says that they’re shifting quickly to do the procurement and utilise this chance to offer badly wanted medical provides to Syria.
(Amr Alfiky / Reuters Archive)
The World Health Organization has been utilizing the post-earthquake pause in sanctions to maneuver badly wanted well being provides and tools into war-torn Syria.
The WHO on Wednesday mentioned it was capitalising on the possibility led to by the suspending of sanctions to do some fast procurement to revitalise Syria’s shattered well being providers.
The United States has since quickly lifted some sanctions, hoping to make sure that assist strikes as rapidly as attainable to these affected.
“WHO is moving very rapidly right now, together with our partners, to take advantage of this pause in the sanctions,” Rick Brennan, the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean regional emergency director, advised a press convention.
“We have already started ordering equipment and supplies and we are working with UN partners on a collective approach to take advantage of the pause,” he mentioned from Gaziantep in southern Türkiye, having returned from northern Syria.
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In #Syria, 2000 further individuals can now get handled as a result of most up-to-date life-saving provides supplied by WHO. Five well being services, together with a cell clinic, throughout Jandairis, Aleppo Governorate, acquired trauma, wound and surgical supplies.
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) February 22, 2023
Damaged well being services
Medicines and vaccines had been wanted, however so was very important tools corresponding to X-ray machines and surgical instruments, he added.
“We will be moving very rapidly to do the procurement, capitalising on this important opportunity that we have.”
Four planes stuffed with provides have flown into Syria because the earthquake.
Damascus has been hit by greater than a decade of financial sanctions, and whereas they weren’t designed to impede assist, they had been blamed by some for the sluggish arrival of help after the quake.
Seven hospitals and 145 well being services in Syria have been broken, many within the northwest, mentioned the company.
The UN well being company referred to as on Syria’s warring factions to see the earthquake as a possibility to finish the civil struggle for good.
The huge 7.7 and seven.6-magnitude tremors on February 6 have killed greater than 42,000 individuals in Türkiye and greater than 5,800 in Syria, whereas the WHO mentioned greater than 125,000 have been injured.
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