The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, arrived Saturday in the Syrian city of Aleppo with a shipment of 35 tons of humanitarian aid, UN sources told DPA.
The shipment includes vital medical supplies and a second shipment of aid is expected within two days, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported.
An estimated five million people have been affected by this week’s earthquakes in Syria, according to WHO delegate for Syria, Iman Shankiti. More than 200,000 people have been left homeless in Aleppo alone.
In total there are at least 3,553 dead in the areas of Syria controlled by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the rebels.
Al Assad himself and his wife, Asma, visited the city of Latakia on Saturday and visited those injured by the earthquake admitted to Tishrin University Hospital, including a woman and her child who were rescued on Friday in Jable after five days under the rubble, SANA reports.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
