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WHO calls for more aid to Syria after earthquake

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The World Health Organization today called for more to help For victims belonging earthquake affected Turkey and Syria at the beginning of February, but emphasized that the situation

WHO calls for more aid to Syria after earthquake

The World Health Organization today called for more to help For victims belonging earthquake affected Turkey and Syria at the beginning of February, but emphasized that the situation in the affected region of the last country (northwest) is much more serious And V people suffer untold.

“The Syrian people have suffered more than V most people could never bear“WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of what he saw during a visit he made this week to the affected Syrian area.

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Tedros was in the province idlebwhich in recent years has been controlled rebel forces who fought the regime of Bashar al-Assad and where disaster damage was concentrated on the other side of the border.

The WHO director confirmed that he was the first high-ranking representative of the entire UN to visit the area, while several others also traveled to the neighboring Turkish region.

For both countries, the head of WHO requested increase in humanitarian aid and support one political decision to the conflict in Syria, which destroyed the social fabric and economic country, and that since its launch in 2011, it is estimated that over 400,000 dead.

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“I appeal to the leaders of both sides in the Syrian conflict use suffering what they share for this new crisis as platform for the worldHow opportunity for reconciliation“Tedros said at a press conference.

In the last decade WHO put a third of medicines in opposition-controlled territories, but after earthquake moved on to two-thirds. In addition, after the disaster, he delivered 200 tons of medical care to hospitals.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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