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Syria

Syria Arab Republic: Health Cluster Bulletin, April 2018

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Highlights

  • 81 of districts are reached by health sector partners.
  • 31% of reached sub-districts are in hard-to-reach and besieged locations.
  • 28% of treatment courses distributed in hard-to-reach and besieged locations.
  • Some 137,000 people are still displaced from Afrin District.
  • 100,000-140,000 people estimated to remain in eastern Ghouta, half of them in Douma.
  • 91 medical mobile teams, clinics, mobile health units and medical points have been mobilized for eastern Ghouta.
  • 29 medical mobile teams, clinics, mobile health units and medical points have been mobilized for Afrin displacement.
  • Coordination at WoS level to enhance coordination on vaccination and disease surveillance across the country (polio, measles, typhoid, hepatitis A).
  • On 1 April WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA took part in the inter-agency assessment mission to Ar Raqqa city.