Re-activating Health Sector with WHO Stressed

DAMASCUS, (ST) – Research and Higher Education Minister Dr. Muhammad Amer Mardini and the Resident Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Damascus Elizabeth Hoff recently discussed here ways to enhance cooperation to ensure equipment of  educational hospitals and emergency drugs.

The minister stressed on the role of the organization and its efforts to ensure the needs of hospitals, educational facilities, especially emergency drugs, pointing to the importance of long-term support because of its positive effects and the need for cooperation to secure the varieties of immunological drugs that are difficult to provide because of sanctions and blockade imposed on Syria.

Dr. Mardini said the ministry is currently working on converting “nursing school to a college,” and the WHO is able to provide technical support in this regard, calling Huff to visit the school to get to know the actual needs and ways to provide assistance.

For her part, Hoff expressed the organization’s readiness to meet the needs of hospitals and health institutions affiliated to the ministry in any of the provinces, saying that part of the work of the organization is to provide technical support to the staff working in the health sector.

“The possibility of providing long-term support with partners in Syria by the concerned organization that will continue to provide medicines and devices for patients with kidney, pointing out that the results are usually negative in crisis, but ” it is at the same time an opportunity to rehabilitate the health sector developed. ” Hoff clarified.

 “The important point on the agenda of the organization’s work now is to re-activate the health sector in Syria and that requires work according to a plan developed by stakeholders in the health sector.” She concluded.

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