Health Ministry received 30 mobile clinic from WHO

DAMASCUS, (ST)_ The Ministry of Health received yesterday 30 mobile medical clinic from WHO  with the aim to ensure health services provided to citizens, especially those devastated because of the crisis.

In a press statement after the delivery, Minister of Health, Dr. Nizar Yazigi said the clinics, are to fill the shortfall in medical services in some areas in the governorates, where the health sector has been exposed to significant damage being targeted by armed terrorist organizations.

He pointed out “that the clinics will be directly put in active service to help in strengthening the national vaccination campaign, surveillance and epidemiological investigation and distribution free medicines to patients with chronic and common diseases under the current conditions.

For her part, WHO representative in Damascus Elizabeth Hoff said that the clinics provided by the organization will contribute to the promotion of medical services and maintain access to the sick and needy in all areas, expressing appreciation for the efforts of the Ministry of Health to provide health services to those in need ” so as to ensure the return of the health system in Syria to what it had been before the crisis. “

This initiative is part of the ongoing cooperation between the Ministry of Health and international organizations to promote health services, in light of the systematic targeting of health institutions, with dozens of them became out of service.

In March, 2014, the ministry of health received from WHO, four mobile clinics to support health care services in the provinces of Damascus, Hama, Deir al-Zour and Idleb.

T. Fateh