Syria’s Autonomous Administration accuses WHO of not providing fair medical aid
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the co-chair of the Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), Jiwan Mustafa, said that the aid provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) to northeast Syria is “unfair because it relies on politicized reports of the Syrian regime.”
“There is unfairness in the distribution of the medical aid,” Mustafa told North Press.
“The dependence of the WHO on politicized and inaccurate statistics and information by the Syrian regime led to the unfairness of the distribution,” he added.
“The WHO directly grants northeast Syria, but it depends on reports of the Syrian regime, which are politicized most of the time, as we mentioned,” Mustafa confirmed.
He pointed out that the aid granted to northeast Syria is very small compared to the population and needs of the region.
On Sunday, the WHO announced on its Twitter account that during 2020, it had distributed more than 1,000 tons of medical aid throughout Syria.
The UN is required to obtain permission from the Syrian government to send aid to northeast Syria which is “often withheld or delayed,” according to a report by the Human Rights Watch.
Syria’s share of the coronavirus vaccines is one million and twenty thousand doses, as a preliminary expectations, within the list of the countries that will receive the vaccine, according to the COVAX agreement.
In a previous statement to North Press, Mustafa expressed his fear that northeast Syria would not obtain the Covid-19 vaccine “and that it will be exploited by the Syrian government.”