The CEO of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday that Travel to Syria affected on Monday, like its neighbor Turkey, by an earthquake whose total balance exceeds 20,000 deaths.
“I am on my way to Syria, where the WHO supports essential health care in the areas affected by the recent earthquake, relying on our work done for a long time in the country”, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on his Twitter account.
Almost at the same moment, the United Nations announced that the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Services Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, would go this weekend to the affected areas in Turkey and Syria.
Griffiths will go to Gaziantep in southern Turkey and Aleppo in northwestern Syria. During this visit, he will also meet with “the authorities of the Syrian capital, Damascus.”
These trips occur when a first aid convoy to the rebel areas of northwestern Syria entered on Thursday through the Bab al-Hawa border post, according to the UN and a person in charge there.
This convoy of six trucks transports blankets, mattresses, tents, rescue material and solar lamps for some 5,000 people, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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