The Syrian Civil Defense Organization began restoring and rehabilitating more than 15 medical facilities, distributed among hospitals, primary health care centers, and women’s and family health centers, in Idlib and Aleppo.
The rescue agency operating in northwestern Syria said in a report that these facilities had been subjected to previous bombing, and were also damaged after the devastating earthquake that struck the region last year, and restoration and rehabilitation work is being carried out in coordination and cooperation with the Health Directorate and partners operating the medical facilities.
The group added that the project is through a memorandum of understanding between the Syrian Civil Defense and the medical organizations operating the facilities included in the project, to ensure continuous coordination and cooperation to provide integrated services to civilians in light of the difficult reality experienced by more than 4 million civilians in northwestern Syria, with the continued attacks by regime forces and Russia. , weak infrastructure and a significant decline in life-saving humanitarian aid.
The project at this stage includes Al-Qaniya Hospital in the western countryside of Idlib, the primary health care center in Harbanoush, the specialized surgical hospital, the health care center for thalassemia in the city of Idlib, the primary health care center in Al-Bardaqli, Al-Hidaya Hospital in Qah, Harem General Hospital, and the care center. The primary health care center in Al-Janudiyah, Al-Andalus Hospital in Batbu, Al-Amal Hospital in Salqin, Ain Al-Bayda Hospital, the Primary Health Care Center in Khirbet Al-Joz, the Primary Health Care Center in Aqrabat, the Women and Family Health Center in Jericho, and the Women and Family Health Center in Sharan, north of Aleppo.
The White Helmets confirmed that over the 13 years of the regime and Russia’s war on the Syrians, the strategy of attacks on medical facilities was part of a systematic policy to undermine medical services in Syria, kill lives, and the devastating earthquake of February 6, 2023 increased the cracks in infrastructure, which doubled the need for work and projects. Supporting the health sector, with the aim of providing integrated health services to Syrians, including life-saving services.
The agency stressed that medical facilities have been the target of attacks by the regime and Russia over the years, and a testing field for Russia's weapons of high destructive power, which were able to put many hospitals out of service, and caused great damage to many of them, which was increased by the devastating earthquake.
The agency stated that the regime and Russia launched more than 570 attacks on health facilities and other facilities providing medical services from 2011 until February 2023, and more than 930 doctors and humanitarian workers were killed while carrying out their humanitarian and moral duty during the same period.
The White Helmets also confirmed that more than 5.1 million civilians live in northwestern Syria, amid a significant decline in health support for health facilities by supporting organizations, which increases the difficulties of life, especially for residents of camps with fragile infrastructure and high population density that increases... The spread of diseases and epidemics,
The organization called for ensuring the right of these civilians to care, with the need to stop the ongoing attacks led by the regime and its allies, implement Resolution 2254, establish mechanisms to hold the regime and Russia accountable for besieging, killing and displacing Syrians, and provide humanitarian support to those in need.
As the conflict, now in its 14th year, reached a stalemate, the Syrian government reclaimed large swathes of lost territory with the help of its key allies in Russia and Iran in recent years.
The U.N. estimates that some 300,000 civilians died during the first decade of the uprising, while half of the pre-war population of 23 million were displaced.
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