After twelve long years of devasting war in Syria, the needs for emergency assistance are at all-time high. Thousands have been displaced from their homes and are struggling to survive. Half of the health facilities were destroyed. Families and children need essential supplies, food, shelters and medicines.
Together with our partners from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement including the Syrian Arab Red Crescent we are responding to the needs of the people on the ground and will continue to do so as long as it needs be.
Since the beginning of 2023, we’ve massively scaled-up our humanitarian response to help people affected by the quakes. The ICRC deployed teams to Aleppo, Latakia and Tartous, including forensic specialists. Medical supplies and equipment were provided to hospitals in Aleppo and Latakia, to help treat the injured.
The ICRC together with the Syrian RC Society provides support for the uninterrupted delivery of essential services to some 16 million displaced people, residents and returnees; more specifically:
* provide 15 major water pumping/treatment facilities and five electrical power plants with spare parts and consumables; carry out repairs and train staff
* repair or upgrade public infrastructure – water and electrical networks − serving smaller, more vulnerable communities, for the benefit of about 4 million people
* renovate a number of government-subsidized bakeries, mills and irrigation systems, serving up to 200,000 people
* restore access to water, electricity and sanitation for about 120,000 people, including destitute returnees and displaced people; repair and/or renovate their shelters
* renovate water, sanitation and other infrastructure at over 30 schools, for some 12,000 students
* install solar panels, and make other renovations, at up to ten primary-health-care facilities
* during emergencies, repair water and wastewater systems, power lines, and shelters, and truck in water to areas where there is no other source of drinking water
In the area of health services we:
* provide supplies – drugs, personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene items – training, and other support regularly to up to 65 primary-health-care facilities run by the health ministry or the National Society, including:
* 28 fixed and mobile clinics offering basic preventive and curative care
* 21 fixed and mobile clinics treating diabetics and others with chronic conditions
* 11 fixed and mobile clinics offering treatment for leishmaniasis and other communicable diseases in Aleppo and Hassakeh
* during emergencies, extend this support to 5 more
clinics
For more information and updates on our work in Syria please visit our website at www.icrc.org.
Syria earthquake 6 months: our impact thanks to your support:
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