Governor of Hasakah discusses with the UNICEF delegation ways to increase the support provided to the service sectors

The Governor of Al-Hasakah, Dr. Louay Sayyouh, discussed during his meeting with the delegation of the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF” headed by the representative of the organization in Syria, Bo Victor Nylund, ways to increase the support provided to the governorate, especially the service sectors of health, education and water.

During the meeting, Sayyouh stressed the governorate’s readiness to provide all support to the UNICEF team working in the governorate to facilitate their mission and implement it as required for the benefit of the people in the governorate, calling for the need to provide more support to the educational, health and drinking water sector and to intervene to address the conditions of thousands of children detained in militia camps and prisons of “SDF” and increasing coordination between the organization and national partners to serve the citizens.

Sayyouh pointed to the continuing practices of the American and Turkish occupiers and their direct impact on the daily life of the people of the province by weakening and obstructing the efforts of vital sectors in the province, starting with the continued water cuts to Al-Hasakah and its countryside.

For his part, Nylund confirmed UNICEF’s commitment to providing its basic services, including water, healthy environment, education, nutrition and child protection, pointing out that the organization is fully aware of the conditions that Syria is going through, including an economic crisis, a shortage of electricity, a shortage of fuel, and its negative repercussions on citizens.

The demands during the meeting focused on the need for continued support to secure part of the citizens’ needs for water by continuing to distribute it through tanks, increasing the quantity and number of installed tanks, and providing the Water Corporation with desalination plants with an appropriate capacity, in addition to emphasizing the continuation of support for vaccine programs and providing medical supplies and medicines to the modernized medical center in the city center to raise The level of services provided to citizens.

In the field of education, the meeting focused on the necessity of continuing the experiment of prefabricated classrooms, as it was a successful experiment, solving a large part of the problem of overcrowding in the classroom, and addressing the conditions of children detained by the “Qasad militia” inside the camps in poor humanitarian conditions, in addition to the arrest of hundreds of other children in their prisons, forcibly recruiting thousands of them, and depriving them of the most basic childhood rights to life and education.

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