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50 tonnes of EU humanitarian aid expected in Syria on December 31

by AI | 27.Dec 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Fifty tons of humanitarian aid, consisting of medical supplies funded by the European Union and coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), are expected to arrive in Syria on December 31.

A man who had been detained at Saydnaya prison in Syria rests as he receives care at Ibn al-Nafis hospital, north of Damascus, on December 14, 2024. (Photo: Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)

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Istanbul (Turkey) – Provided by the European Union, 50 tons of medical supplies arrived Thursday in Istanbul, Turkey, and are expected to reach Syria by December 31 after the completion of Turkish customs procedures, a WHO spokeswoman announced to AFP on Friday.

The EU announced in mid-December the launch of a humanitarian airlift to Syria, via Turkey, the first European aid of this kind since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.

The aid includes emergency surgery kits for trauma and essential medicines, specified Mrinalini Santhanam, WHO press relations officer in Gaziantep, southern Turkey.

“The supplies will be distributed to health facilities and doctors in Syria according to humanitarian principles so that the whole of Syria, Idlib and Aleppo in particular, can benefit,” said Lorenzo Dal Monte, planning analyst at WHO. This equipment will allow “thousands of surgical operations and treatment of the wounded,” he added. (December 27, 2024)

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