World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first ever visit to rebel-held areas of the war-ravaged country.
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“I call on the international community, governments, philanthropists, individuals, to dig deep,” added Tedros, the highest-ranking United Nations official to visit the rebel-held area since civil war broke out almost 12 years ago. Turkish-backed officials in Syria have put the death toll in rebel-held areas at 4,537, while the Syrian government has said 1,414 people were killed in areas under its control.
UN relief chief Martin Griffiths had admitted on February 12 that the body had “so far failed the people in northwest Syria”. More than four million people live in areas outside government control in Syria’s north and northwest, 90 percent of whom depend on aid to survive.The first UN aid convoy crossed into the area on February 9 — three days after the 7.8-magnitude quake struck — and carried tents and other relief for 5,000. That convoy had been expected before the earthquake.
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