WHO in Syria
Nationwide polio vaccination campaign aims to vaccinate more than 2.4 million children
12 March 2018 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF are supporting a nationwide polio vaccination campaign in the Syrian Arab Republic that aims to vaccinate more than 2.4 million children under 5 years of age in 13 governorates. The campaign, which is being managed by the Ministry of Health, was launched on 11 March and will last for 5...
Helping Fatima get back on her feet
Fatima walks to school for the first time in months. With support from the Government of Japan WHO was able to provide her physical treatment needed to overcome Guillain-Barré syndrome. WHO Syria 20188 March 2018 – Twelve-year-old Fatima Hamidi lives with her 5 sisters and 7 brothers in the city of Aleppo. Over the past few years, her family’s life...
Restoring hearing helps a child recover in Syria
Nour and his mother sit together at the Tamayoz Social Care Association in Damascus1 March 2018 – Nour and his family fled their home in a besieged area last year, arriving in Damascus with almost nothing, after living through a terrifying ordeal. Nour lost his father and had stopped speaking. Now 11, Nour lost his hearing when he was an infant,...
WHO health assessment to Al-Mouaddamiyeh in Rural Damascus
Primary health care centre at Al-Mouaddamiyeh being rehabilitated with WHO support. WHO Syria 201828 February 2018 – WHO has participated in an inter-agency mission to assess health needs in Al-Mouaddamiyeh (Rural Damascus). This area, which recently became accessible following years of siege, is home to over a hundred thousand people. According...
WHO delivers life-saving health supplies to Deir-ez-Zor governorate
7 February 2018 - The World Health Organization (WHO) dispatched 14 tons of life-saving medicines, anesthetics, antibiotics, emergency medical kits and other treatments to Deir-ez-Zor governorate this week to urgently respond to the critical health needs of people in north-east Syria. The shipment contains more than 303 000 treatments for ill and...
17 tons of medical supplies airlifted to Al-Hasakeh governorate in northeast Syria
6 February, 2018- The World Health Organization (WHO) has airlifted 17 tons of medical supplies to Al-Hasakeh governorate, Syrian Arab Republic, as part of its continued efforts to alleviate the suffering of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) and critically ill patients in north-east Syria. The airlift contains enough...
WHO ensures life-saving treatment for cancer patients in Syria with support from Kuwait
Hamad receives a gift package from WHO on World Cancer Day. Hamad has to come to the hospital for 5 days every 3 months to be treated for leukemia. WHO/Syria5 February 2018 – Thirteen-year old Hamad from rural Hama, Syrian Arab Republic, is being treated for leukaemia at the Children’s Hospital in Damascus. On Sunday 4 February, he met Elizabeth...
Medicine on the move
WHO ramps up health support to camps in northeastern Syria in response to huge population movements A boy plays with a homemade kite in Ain Issa Camp31 January 2018 – Sitting on the uneven floor of his small white tent in a displacement camp in northeastern Syria, Nasser Ali Mousa can find only one way to describe what his family went through in...
News
// = pageSize * (page - 1) && n < pageSize * page) jQuery(this).show(); }); } showPage(1); jQuery("#pagin li a").click(function() { jQuery("#pagin li a").removeClass("current"); jQuery(this).addClass("current"); showPage(parseInt(jQuery(this).text())) }); //...
