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QAMISHLI, energy-cooperation-with-switzerland-and-jordan/" class="smart-internal-link" title="📰 Syria explores energy cooperation with Switzerland and Jordan">syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria (North Press) – More than 400 health facilities across Syria have been forced to suspend or reduce services amid a severe funding crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday, leaving millions without access to basic care. as per WHO, only 58 percent of hospitals and 23 percent of primary healthcare centers in Syria are currently fully functional. Funding shortages have affected over 400 medical facilities, with 366 halting or scaling back services, disrupting access for 7. 4 million people nationwide.
Indeed, in just two months, the crisis has prevented 122,000 trauma consultations and forced 13,700 births to take place without a skilled attendant, the agency stated. “Services on the ground remain very fragile…health needs are still rising,” stated Dr. Christina Bethke, WHO’s representative in Syria. Bethke warned that the ongoing shortage of health workers and poor working conditions continue to strain recovery.
WHO stated key hospitals in Hasakah and Deir ez-zor risk closure, affecting over one million people. Of the $565. 5 million needed to sustain Syria’s health sector, only 20 percent has been received. “Without predictable, multi-year backing, the health system could unravel just as recovery is within reach,” Bethke cautioned.
By Jwan Shekaki