Lebanon is on the verge of a mental health emergency after the trauma of the devastating Beirut explosion. However, the healthcare system is ill-equipped to meet the needs of a traumatised people.
Idlib is no stranger to death, but the war-torn Syrian region is desperately underprepared for the threat of coronavirus.
The Idlib Health Directorate has announced that four patients living in displacement camps in Idlib have shown symptoms typical of the coronavirus.
The World Health Organisation has warned that those displaced in Idlib camps with little option of isolation and limited medical facilities are at a risk of infection.
The coronavirus has now spread to seven Middle Eastern countries, with more than 79,000 cases of the infection worldwide.
As the military conflict in northern Syria rages on, the Directorate of Health and medical organisations operating in the region met to discuss support to displaced people.
Doctors Without Borders have provided the health sector in Iraq with $50m in a bid to restore the country's ailing healthcare services.
The Japanese Ambassador to Jordan and the director of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Hub in Amman, have attended meetings with medical staff throughout Jordan in order to support the development of the health sector in the country.
The Government of National Accord’s (GNA) Ministry of Health has reported that its Swani field hospital was the subject of an LNA air strike.
Hospitals and health centres in the Hama region of Syria are working at minimum capacity and are waiting for much needed support.
International Medical Corps' mental health officer, Hadeel Naser, is working tirelessly with Syrian refugees at Jordan's Azraq Camp to help them heal from invisible scars. "Not everybody can do this job," she says.
During the National Conference for the Development of Health system, the Centre for Development of Health announced their plan to reform the health sector in Libya.
A number of hospitals in Mosul are receiving rehabilitation support from the World Health Organisation, which is coordinating with a local organisation and the Nineveh Health Department.
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