Hoff: WHO committed to provide healthcare services for Aleppo citizens

Aleppo, SANA –World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Syria, Elizabeth Hoff, stressed the organization’s commitment to do its best to provide necessary healthcare services for citizens in Aleppo.

Touring temporary makeshift centers in al-Mahalej area in Aleppo, Hoff inspected healthcare services offered to citizens evacuated from the eastern neighborhoods, highlighting continued coordination between the organization, Aleppo Health Directorate and civil society to improve services in order to meet the needs of terror-affected people through vaccination and medical examination teams.

In turn, Head of Aleppo Health Directorate, Mazen Hajj Taha, said that a medical center has been established to provide around-the-clock healthcare services to all citizens, adding that ambulance cars are ready to transport patients whose cases require hospital care.

Earlier, Hoff and Head of Health Directorate inspected Ibn Khaldoun psychiatric hospital and listened to the hospital’s Director General Bassam Hayek’s preview on efforts exerted to provide health assistance to patients from Aleppo eastern neighborhoods.

R.Raslan/Mazen

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