ToT programme to enhance hospital management and care across Syria. Photo credit: @WHO Syria-Bashar Sattari31 October 2024, – On 23 October 2024 the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with Syria’s Ministry of Health, announced a comprehensive training of trainers (ToT) programme to enhance hospital management and care across...

EMRO team visiting the newly established leishmaniasis treatment centre in Salah Al-Din, Aleppo, as part of WHO's efforts to expand healthcare access in Syria. Photo credit: @WHO Syria.24 October 2024 – On 3 October 2024, experts from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean and the WHO Country Office concluded a mission in Syria to...

Caption 1: Dr. Ghazwan Bweedani at Azaz Mental Health Hospital with a patient. 10 October 2024 – More than thirteen years of crises have taken a heavy toll on the health and well-being of Syria’s population, particularly its healthcare workers. On this World Mental Health Day, themed “Mental Health at Work,” WHO is highlighting the immense...

The newly equipped and renovated Intensive Care Unit at the Pediatric Hospital in Aleppo. Photo credit: @WHOSyria.9 October, Aleppo, Syria – The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and with funding from the People of Japan, has delivered essential medical equipment to the newly...

6 October 2024 – The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the US$ 5.5 million funding received from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to enhance its integrated multisectoral emergency response in Syria. The funding will enable WHO to continue delivering life-saving healthcare services to the most vulnerable populations in...

Jehan receiving free maintenance for her artificial limbs at the Rehabilitation and Artificial Limbs Centre. Photo credit: WHO Syria.17 September 2024, Damascus, Syria – Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety, the theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day – observed annually on 17 September – calls global attention to the critical need for...

Photo caption: Thaer Al-Ali at BASMA Association in Rural Damascus, Syria providing healthcare for a young cancer patient.1 September 2024, Damascus, Syria –Thaer Al-Ali is a nurse at the BASMA Association in Syria’s Rural Damascus governorate. He is part of a team caring for children with cancer. “Every day starts early. By the time I arrive at...

Abu Sary is pictured with WHO staff in July 2024 during the 2nd round of the Big Catch-up vaccination activity in Al-Saan health center, Suqaylabiyah, Hama Governorate.27 August 2024, Damascus, Syria – On 28 May 2024, delegates of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly took part in a special high-level event to celebrate 50 years of...

Photo caption: Emad Shehab actively engaging with community members during a cholera awareness campaign in Al-Ashara, Deir-ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, 2023. Photo credit: @WHO 19 August 2024, Damascus, Syria – Emad Shehab, killed after a building collapsed following an airstrike in his hometown Deir-ez-Zor, was a public health emergency specialist...

Door-to-door distribution of permethrin cream in camps as part of the scabies response in north-west Syria. Photo credit: © Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation4 August 2024 – In north-west Syria, lack of sanitation services, compounded by limited water supply and overcrowding, creates the ideal conditions for infectious diseases to spread. Scabies is...