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Salama

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first: 2017-01-26
most recent: 2017-01-26
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“Finally, the pernicious attacks on health care workers and clinics must end. The perpetrators must be held accountable. These attacks undermine the very foundations of peace and security and have been the subject of previous Security Council deliberations. Equally unacceptable is any use of health-care facilities for military purposes. We should join together to condemn such egregious violations of international humanitarian law and find a practical mechanism to stop them once and for all. Ultimately, the Syrian health-care system will need to be rebuilt, with serious and sustained investment and the support of the entire international community. We will save that discussion for a more hopeful time, which we hope is not far off.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source
“Finally, we have four major requests of the Council today aimed at saving lives and underscoring the sanctity of health workers. First, we must ensure that all parties to the conflict permit the evacuation of critically ill and wounded patients and their families from all hard-to-reach and besieged areas of Syria. Secondly, we must ensure that medical teams are granted sustained and unconditional access to all parts of Syria in order to assess needs, monitor programmes - including the distribution of supplies and trained staff - as well as provide direct medical care. Thirdly, we must ensure that essential health supplies, including trauma and surgical supplies, which have been systematically removed from United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoys, are consistently allowed into hard- to-reach and besieged areas.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source
“WHO and its partners, such as the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, stand ready to deliver medical supplies sufficient to cover the needs of the population for three months in Deir ez-Ezor should there be access and a logistics system in place to deliver them. We also recognize the urgent un-met health care needs in and around Aleppo following the intense hostilities late last year and the resulting population displacement. WHO and its partners are already scaling up our existing primary health-care and other programmes. We are aware of the reports of medical supplies found in warehouses when the Government of Syria regained control over eastern Aleppo. We look forward to receving further details on the quantities and types of supplies in order to determine the appropriate action with the relevant authorities.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source
“The credit for those results rests with the courageous Syrian health workers, who continue to deliver health care for their people under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. Unfortunately, in 2017 the ceasefire has not yet translated into sustained improvement in access to health care in the majority of hard-to-reach and besieged areas. As noted by Mr. O'Brien, we are particularly concerned by the situation in Deir ez-Zor, where people are struggling to survive in the besieged enclaves. The Al-Assad University Hospital has temporarily been out of service due to clashes in the area, necessitating the air evacuation of the wounded and the sick.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source
“More than 300,000 women are not able to get the urgent care they need for a safe pregnancy and delivery. Indeed, the indirect toll on civilian lives may eventually far outweigh the direct toll due to bombs and bullets. As with our other United Nations and non-governmental organization partners, in the health sector WHO has been challenged to find new and innovative ways to deliver services in that complex context, whether through mobile health clinics or through cross-line and cross-border programmes. In 2016, WHO and partners such as UNICEF and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent were able to vaccinate more than 2.5 million children against polio, measles and other diseases; deliver more than 10 million treatments and train more than 16,000 health workers; and assist in medical evacuations of the critically sick and injured.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source
“Approximately two-thirds of health workers have fled the country. Tragically, in 2016 there were reports of more than 100 attacks on hospitals and clinics across the country. Not surprisingly, the inability or unwillingness of the warring parties to safeguard basic health care has resulted in acute shortages and barriers to access, including for life-saving services, such as trauma care for the injured, medical treatment of common chronic diseases and basic prevention programmes, such as vaccination programmes for children. It is estimated that now one in two children is not protected against major infectious disease killers and that one in four children is at risk of developing serious mental health disorders, with their associated long-term impacts on the children themselves and on the society to which they contribute.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source
“Mr. Salama: I thank the Council for this opportunity to brief members on the impact of six years of war on the health of the Syrian people. The war in Syria has taken a devastating toll on the people of Syria and the health workers, hospitals and clinics intended to serve them. The war has obviously had a direct impact on the civilian population, with more than half a million people killed and 1.5 million injured. Indeed, until the recent security developments, we estimate that approximately 30,000 people were sustaining war-related injuries every month. Furthermore, in many parts of the country, the war has virtually gutted a once-strong health system. More than half of the country's public hospitals and primary care centres have either closed or are only partially functioning.”
2017-01-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7870 (2017) · source