As humanitarian convoys gain access to hard-to-reach areas in Syria, some United Nations agencies are speaking out about fresh dangers to aid workers.
In Rural Damascus, an inter-agency convoy today delivered life-saving assistance to 15,000 people in need in the hard-to-reach town of Serghaya for the first time since February, according to a United Nations spokesperson,New Kerala reported.
“The convoy contains food, education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, and other basic relief items,” spokesperson Farhan Haq told journalists in New York.
Attacks on medical facilities throughout Syria are posing additional challenges to humanitarian work in Syria, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
The agency today said that it has reports of up to 40 confirmed attacks on health care facilities across Syria in 2016, with nearly 60 per cent of public hospitals in the country closed or are only partially functional.
“These latest events represent a serious setback for the affected community and an additional challenge to humanitarian work in Syria,” the agency said today in a news release referring to recent attacks on three hospitals in the country’s Aleppo and Idlib, UN News Center reported.
It is worth mentioning that Assad jets and Russian warplanes have been targeting hospitals and medical workers in Syria and many reports were published confirming their massacres.
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