Aliyah, a paediatric nurse in northern Aleppo, has been displaced six times due to the conflict. She lives in a temporary shelter with harsh conditions and safety risks. She wears bags over her uniform while traveling to keep herself clean and protected.
Health workers are crucial to any health system. Over half of the workforce has left the country, but those who remain in Syria are working hard to care for the vulnerable. Without health workers, the system cannot function.
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Thanaa, a nurse from Aleppo, has faced numerous challenges throughout the years of crisis that she will never forget. Despite difficulties in accessing transportation,she managed to reach work every day and provide life-saving care to thousands of patients.
#SyriaConf2024
#EU
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Health workers are crucial to any health system. Over half of the workforce has left the country, but those who remain in Syria are working hard to care for the vulnerable despite earning less than 25 USD per month.
Without health workers, the system cannot function.
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My Health, My Right _ The right to health for millions of people in Syria is being increasingly challenged. The health system is in deep peril.
Just 63% of hospitals and 52% of primary healthcare facilities are fully functional.
منذ عام 2000، أنقذ التطعيم ضد الحصبة وحده حياة 9 ملايين شخص في إقليم شرق المتوسط.
احتفل بهذا الإنجاز المذهل واحرص على حمايته. ساهم في تمويل التمنيع.
يجب علينا الآن توسيع نطاق فوائد التمنيع المنقذة للحياة لتشمل كل ركن من أركان إقليم شرق المتوسط
#بمقدورنا أن نجعل العالم أكثر صحة
Since 2000, measles vaccination alone has saved over 9 million lives in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
Now we must extend immunization’s life-saving benefits to every corner of the Region.
A healthier world is
#HumanlyPossible
!
#WorldImmunizationWeek
#VaccinesWork
يمكننا القضاء على أمراض فتاكة مثل الحصبة والحصبة الألمانية. هل تعلم أن هناك4⃣بلدان في إقليم شرق المتوسط قد حصلت على شهادة من منظمة الصحة العالمية بالقضاء على الحصبة والحصبة الألمانية، وهي: البحرين ومصر وعُمان وإيران
فلا ينبغي لأحد أن يعاني من مرض نعرف كيفية الوقاية منه
#بمقدورنا
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Since 1974, the Expanded Programme on
#Immunization
(EPI) has worked tirelessly to ensure every child, no matter where they're from, has access to life-saving vaccines.
Here's to 5 decades of saving lives worldwide!
#VaccinesWork
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It's
#WorldImmunizationWeek
#Immunization
is one of humanity's greatest achievements helping to eradicate smallpox and save at least 3 million lives a year.
And you’re part of it. By being vaccinated, you’re helping to keep others safe. Now we need your help again.
We’re…
Did you know that
@WHO
has certified 4⃣ countries of the
@WHOEMRO
Region as having eliminated measles and rubella? Bahrain, Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Oman have all achieved this distinction.
Nobody should suffer from a disease we know how to prevent.
#VaccinesWork
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Health is an investment, not a cost. This is why Health and Finance Ministers should work more closely together, and use health as a foundation for a country’s development and prosperity.
Pleased to take part in
@isdb_group
’s panel today alongside Indonesia’s Finance Minister…
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Very pleased for the opportunity to meet H.R.H. Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal,
#SaudiArabia
’s Sports Minister and president of the Union of Arab National Olympic Committees. We discussed opportunities to work together to raise health awareness through sports and big…