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Damascus
Hospitals in the rebel-controlled stronghold of Idlib in north-western Syria have limited their work to emergency cases after the first infection of the novel coronavirus was recorded in the region, a doctor said on Saturday.
“The hospitals have suspended outpatient clinics and only receive emergency cases,” Mazen Kewara, the country director for Turkey of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), told dpa.
He added that the Bab al-Hawa Hospital, where the first infection of a doctor was reported, has been completely shut down.
Idlib is the last rebel stronghold in war-torn Syria and home to 3 million people.
On Friday, Russia and China vetoed a compromise proposal in the UN Security Council to continue humanitarian aid for millions of Syrians The resolution called for the two border crossings to Syria to be kept open for another six months.
Ahmad Ramadan - a spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), an umbrella organization for the opposition - condemned the veto and said cutting aid was a “crime.”
“This will cause a humanitarian catastrophe, especially that Idlib has registered its first Vod-19 case. The world community should stand against this mainly Russian move,” he told dpa.
He added that Idlib’s health infrastructure is not ready to address an outbreak of the virus.
Damascus
Hospitals in the rebel-controlled stronghold of Idlib in north-western Syria have limited their work to emergency cases after the first infection of the novel coronavirus was recorded in the region, a doctor said on Saturday.
“The hospitals have suspended outpatient clinics and only receive emergency cases,” Mazen Kewara, the country director for Turkey of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), told dpa.
He added that the Bab al-Hawa Hospital, where the first infection of a doctor was reported, has been completely shut down.
Idlib is the last rebel stronghold in war-torn Syria and home to 3 million people.
On Friday, Russia and China vetoed a compromise proposal in the UN Security Council to continue humanitarian aid for millions of Syrians The resolution called for the two border crossings to Syria to be kept open for another six months.
Ahmad Ramadan - a spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), an umbrella organization for the opposition - condemned the veto and said cutting aid was a “crime.”
“This will cause a humanitarian catastrophe, especially that Idlib has registered its first Vod-19 case. The world community should stand against this mainly Russian move,” he told dpa.
He added that Idlib’s health infrastructure is not ready to address an outbreak of the virus.
