UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – The United Nations and partners have mobilised relief efforts, to help residents in Syria’s western Latakia Governorate recover from recent violence, UN humanitarians said, yesterday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, power outages continue in several regions, including the governorate’s capital city of Latakia. Water distribution is affected by the outages, mainly in rural areas.
Schools in Latakia and Tartous have been suspended. Bakeries are operational, and shops are reopening, though essential materials and fuel remain scarce.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) supplied 38 tonnes of water treatment supplies to Latakia’s water authority, covering more than two months of needs.
The agency also provided five water tanks to Jableh National Hospital in Latakia, to replace damaged ones.
UNICEF and its partners are helping maintain the Al Sin Spring generator in Tartous, to ensure a drinking water supply for the population.
Health partners delivered emergency supplies, including 64 trauma and emergency surgical kits and non-communicable disease treatments to Tartous and Latakia.
OCHA said, cross-border assistance from Türkiye into north-west Syria continues with 31 trucks from the World Food Programme, the International Organisation for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency crossing, at Bab al-Hawa, to deliver over 600 tonnes of aid supplies, including food, shelter repair and hygiene kits.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), based in Britain, reported that, nearly 1,500 people, including more than 1,000 civilians, have been killed in the violent escalation in the costal region since last week.– NNN-SANA
