WHO in Syria
WHO welcomes Dr Akjemal Magtymova as WHO Representative in Syria
Dr Akjemal Magtymova, WHO Representative to the Syrian Arab Republic 7 May 2020 – WHO welcomes Dr Akjemal Magtymova as incoming WHO Representative to the Syrian Arab Republic. Dr Magtymova joins WHO Syria at a critical time, with multiple public health threats threatening the well-being of millions of Syrians. An outbreak of COVID-19 in the...
Saving lives in Syria with support from Norway
19 April 2020 - Generous funding from the Government of Norway during the last 4 years has enabled WHO to reach more than 1.4 million beneficiaries in Syria and improve their access to primary health care services through 40 nongovernmental organization partners. From 2016 to 2019, Norway provided flexible funding to WHO Syria totalling more than...
WHO continues to support the fight against coronavirus in Syria
2 April 2020 – The World Health Organization (WHO) is working closely with the Syrian Ministry of Health to enhance Syria’s preparedness and response to COVID-19. WHO’s support focuses on 4 main priorities: enhancing surveillance and expanding laboratory testing for early detection of cases; protecting health care workers by providing them with...
In 4 years, 494 attacks on health killed 470 patients and health staff in Syria
Every 4 days in 2019, a health facility in Syria was attacked. A majority occurred in the northwest, where the world‘s most urgent humanitarian crisis continues to unfold. March 2020, Geneva/Copenhagen/Cairo – The World Health Organization condemns in the strongest terms, attacks on health care that have been a hallmark of the complex...
WHO combats misinformation circulating on COVID-19
5 March 2020, Damascus - The World Health Organization (WHO) categorically refutes the misinformation circulating on social media that has been falsely accredited to WHO related to COVID-19 in Syria. As per a statement by the Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean published on Tuesday 3 March, 2020, "1682 cases of Covid-19 disease in 14...
Syria: Health workers describe mayhem as WHO delivers urgent medicine and supplies to ensure continued health services
WHO provides more than 225 000 courses of treatment to internally displaced Syrians in Idlib and Aleppo 28 February 2020, Geneva/Copenhagen/Cairo – In a two-day operation the World Health Organization sent 55 tons of medicine and medical supplies in 7 trucks from Turkey into Idlib governorate and parts of Aleppo. Since December 2019 the area has...
WHO welcomes Japan’s donation of 5 ambulances and 2 mobile clinics
17 February 2020 – WHO handed over 6 equipped ambulances to the Ministries of Health and Higher Education thanks to a generous donation from the Government of Japan. These ambulances are a vital boost to WHO’s efforts to support emergency and ambulance services with a view to improving the health outcomes of internally displaced people and local...
Maintaining services and equipment in health care facilities
10 February 2020 – WHO welcomes the generous support from the Government of Japan to conducted training courses for Ministry of Health and Ministry of Higher Education engineers through the “ Training for All – (T4A)” project on acquiring the know-how in installing and maintaining lifesaving and state of-the-art medical equipment at health...
Northwest Syria: WHO raises alarm as more than 50 health facilities are forced to cease operations amid mass displacement and hostilities
3 February 2020, Geneva-Cairo-Copenhagen – The World Health Organization raises alarm over critical health threats facing hundreds of thousands of Syrians forced to flee due to intensified hostilities in northwest Syria and attacks on health care. Fighting in Idleb governorate, the last area in the country under opposition-control, has...
Russia provides WHO a grant of US $ 3 million to support the people of Syria
21 January 2020 – WHO welcomes a new contribution of $3 million from the Russian Federation to support the provision of health care services for vulnerable people in the Syrian governorates of Dar'a, Deir-ez-Zor, Homs and Qunitera. “We are extremely grateful for Russia’s generous contribution which has come as a major step towards reviving the...