Bab al-Hawa, Syria (AFP): World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first ever visit to rebel-held areas of the war-ravaged country. “The people of northwest Syria need the assistance of the international community to recover an...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Northwest Syria is facing the threat of spread of cholera in the wake of deadly earthquakes that exacerbated an already dire humanitarian landscape, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief said Tuesday. “The risk of disease is growing amid preexisting cholera outbreaks,” Martin Griffiths told the Security ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Physicians and paramedical staff from Indonesia treated over 2,000 people in earthquake-hit Türkiye, an official from the country has said. Dr. Corona Rintawan, deputy head of Indonesian field hospital, said in a written statement that around 70% of patients who were treated by the Indonesian emergency medical team, complained ...
HATAY, Türkiye (AA) – The US has started building a 100-bed field hospital in Türkiye’s quake-hit southern Hatay province. The hospital will be run by 34 personnel from the US Air and Naval Forces in the compound of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University Hospital in the Antakya region. The hospital will also have an intensive care […]
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced the suspension of its work in Burkina Faso after two employees were killed in an attack by armed men. “Following the attack in which two of our staff were killed on 8 February in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, we are suspending all our activities […]
ANKARA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) launched an appeal worth $43 million to support the earthquake response in Syria, and Türkiye, WHO Regional Director for Europe has said. “I expect this to at least double over the coming days, as we get a better assessment of the massive scale of this crisis and […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — AFP A senior World Health Organization official bemoaned Syria’s “forgotten crisis,” as aid began trickling into rebel-held areas, days after a devastating earthquake. As the WHO prepared to fly medical supplies to Syria from Dubai, Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Health Em...
Badush, Iraq — AFP Despite vaccinating his entire herd against foot-and-mouth disease, Iraqi farmer Saadoun Roumi has lost five of his 15 buffaloes to a variant never before seen in the country. The severe, highly contagious livestock disease has plagued Iraq for decades, but this year’s outbreak has already had a devastating impac...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday accused Israel of denying cancer patients the right to medical treatment abroad. “Israel deprives 40 percent of cancer patients in Gaza of their right to medical treatment abroad,” Khaled Thabet, head of the ministry’s oncology department, told Anadolu. “Cancer patients in...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN and several international humanitarian agencies have asked the Taliban to expand exceptions for women to work in humanitarian, health and education sectors. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths traveled to Kabul last week with a delegation including Janti Soeripto (president of Save the Children US), Sofia ...
