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WHO supports life-saving health care for people in southern Syria

Amman, Aug 16 (UNI) The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting the provision of life-saving health care services for more than 900 000 conflict-affected people in southern Syria.
Since mid-June 2018, WHO has delivered 61 tons of supplies – enough for more than 312 000 treatments – to the Directorates of Health in Dar’a and Quneitra, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and As Sweida National Hospital.
The supplies include surgical, trauma and burn kits, chronic disease medicines and insulin. WHO is also supporting the only functioning blood bank in areas of southern Syria that were formerly controlled by non-state armed groups.
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Magnitude-5 6 earthquake rocks northern Turkish province of Tokat: AFAD

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8 Kenyan military officers killed in plane crash

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