Reference :
V-P-SY-E-00079
Date :
29/06/2011
Caption :
Village of Al-Hambushiyah. A beneficiary and an ICRC employee shake hands during a distribution of food rations by the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (Idlib branch).
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publication without restrictions
Description :
Source: ICRC website. 08-07-2011 Operational Update. Syria: wider access for ICRC in areas of unrest.
The ICRC has been granted expanded access to areas affected by the current unrest. In cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the ICRC has visited Dara'a and Idlib to assess the humanitarian situation and provide assistance where needed.
Assessing the humanitarian situation in Dara'a and Idlib. Following ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger's two-day visit to Syria and his meetings with high-level officials, the ICRC was granted wider access to areas stricken by violence during nearly four months of disturbances and unrest.
In the southern city of Dara'a, ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent staff have visited the local Red Crescent chapter, the general hospital and some neighbourhoods.
"The hospital has been able to meet the needs of more than 1,500 injured people," said its director.
Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers and staff have distributed 12,000 food parcels, 3,000 tins of baby milk and other items to the hospital. On a previous visit to Dara'a, the ICRC donated five wound-dressing kits to the medical facility.
ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent staff also visited the local Red Crescent chapter in the northern city of Idlib before proceeding to a number of nearby villages and towns, where disturbances and displacement have been reported, to assess needs.
Idlib Red Crescent volunteers have been making daily visits to areas affected by the unrest to survey needs and register people who need assistance. They have distributed 5,500 food parcels, 2,600 blankets, 2,600 mattresses, baby milk, medications and other items in some 20 villages and towns directly affected, including Jisr al-Shughur and Khirbat al-Juz, and in towns such as Darkush and Hitya where people fleeing the violence had taken temporary refuge. Most people who fled from Jisr al-Shughur to Darkush and other nearby towns have now returned to their homes.
The Idlib branch of the Red Crescent runs a 22-bed hospital that provides services for some 450 people a month. The ICRC gave the hospital two wound-dressing kits, each containing enough supplies to treat 150 injured people.
Jisr al-Shughur's six-year-old government hospital serves the area's population of approximately 400,000. "The situation is calmer now," said its director. "But when military operations were taking place during three days in early June, the hospital received many casualties." The ICRC gave three wound-dressing kits to the hospital.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been distributing food parcels in some villages in the area, including in Al-Hambushiyah, where 250 parcels were handed out.
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