With the aim of continuing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with partners, the Idlib Health Directorate hosted a meeting that included members of the fourth MedGlobal medical mission and representatives of health agencies operating in northern Syria. During the meeting, the MedGlobal delegation, which includes specialist doctors and surgeons from the United States of America and Britain, presented the most important experiences of their medical missions in Gaza, Sudan, Bangladesh and Ukraine, stressing the major role of the Idlib Health Directorate in coordinating and facilitating the work of the missions that reach northwestern Syria. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Syria Immunization Group, Syrian Board Of Medical Specialities (SBOMS), and the Office for Disability Affairs, in addition to health care specialists in northwestern Syria.

The attendees brought to the delegation that will leave within the next two days a set of messages to donor bodies and institutions, including: Emphasizing the necessity of continuing the vaccine program, which contributes to reducing treatment costs as it is the first safety valve in the face of disease outbreaks Supporting training and medical scientific research programs for health cadres, providing suitable training and work environments for resident doctors to provide the health sector with the best specialized expertise, and directing special missions to train cadres Working to meet the needs of people with disabilities, and expanding the scope of work of special education centers and teams Supporting integration projects, devices, prosthetics, and prosthetic limbs for people with disabilities, and re-evaluating the needs of centers that work to provide services for this category

The need to develop the engineering structures of health facilities so that the service reaches everyone in a fair and effective manner, and to contribute to the training of specialists to deal with the needs of people with disabilities At the conclusion of the meeting, the Assistant Director of Idlib Health, Dr. Hossam Qara Muhammad, stressed the necessity of restoring grants to health facilities for which support had stopped, and maintaining existing projects, given that the region is densely populated with civilians and the need is great. Any further reduction will herald an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.