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Lattakia, SANA – Lattakia Governor Ibrahim Khodr al-Salem discussed on Thursday with Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Elizabeth Hoff means to activate joint cooperation to meet the province’s needs of medical requirements and medicines, particularly medicines for chronic diseases, tetanus and dialysis.
Al-Salem highlighted the need that the aid provided by the WHO be calculated according to the actual number of people residing in the province, including all of those who were displaced from other areas and not just the families accommodated in the makeshift residential centers.
He explained that people living at these centers are only 1% of real number of displaced people, given the fact that the majority of those have integrated into the society.
While hailing the WHO’s efforts in providing assistance to Lattakia province, al-Salem requested that aid be increased in order to meet the growing demand spawned by the displacement movement from terrorism-stricken areas, stressing that all the residents in Lattakia are equally provided health and education services for free and to the fullest.
For her part, Hoff expressed the WHO’s readiness to make efforts to provide more support to Lattakia taking into account the increasing needs, expressing her hope that the organization will open an office and a warehouse in Lattakia to help in delivering aid directly through Lattakia Port.
She appreciated the way displaced people are hosted in Lattakia and other provinces, where they are accommodated by the Syrian state and people and not by international organizations, unlike what it is usually the case in other countries.
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