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Syria: Multiple crises strain emergency services

After a powerful earthquake that killed more than 45,000 people in Syria and Turkiye combined, emergency services are ramping up for hundreds of thousands of people in need of shelter, food and medical assistance.

Syria’s population is particularly struggling to get emergency services, while also trying to recover from frequent fighting between militant groups, the economic crisis and, most recently, an outbreak of cholera.

“One thing to remember, … is that after 12 years of severe crisis in the country and a cholera outbreak last year, this is the third emergency,” Chiran Livera of the Red Cross told CTV’s Your Morning today. Monday.

More than 52,000 suspected cases of cholera and 98 deaths from the disease have been reported since December. The first case in 14 years was reported in Aleppo in August 2022.

Water shortages have worsened the problem and affected crops, affecting the nation’s increasingly malnourished population.

Livera said international aid groups like the Red Cross have worked tirelessly to open their services at community centers, mosques and schools, but a lack of resources is making it difficult difficult to keep up with the growing number of people in need.

The United Nations has provided US$10 million to help 5 million people access their water and sanitation needs amid the health crisis and water shortage. However, officials say more is still needed to keep up with demand.

“There’s no fuel, no electricity, so everything is in a bad state and people are relying on the system to find things, so the shelters are packed with hundreds of thousands of people,” Livera said. .

Despite the challenges, Livera said international aid has greatly helped the situation, although he hopes it will continue as the country may still be struggling to help those displaced earthquake in the next few months.

“Life-saving assistance has arrived and we are providing medicine, but now we need to focus on people’s resilience and help them rebuild their lives and livelihoods, so we need support.” more, certainly in the coming weeks and months,” he said.



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