The International Rescue Committee has found that the attacks on hospitals in northwest Syria have had an “uneven effect” on the reproductive health of women and girls in the region.
“The impact of the conflict in northwest Syria on sexual and reproductive health services”, the international organization’s report says, includes significant increase in displacement, destruction of roads, lack of fuel and limited health services, medicines and medical equipment after the devastating earthquake, 37,000 births in the next three months. It will affect approximately 148,000 pregnant women who are expected to do so.
The report noted that only 7% of medical facilities in northwest Syria offer comprehensive maternity care services out of 367 facilities, while only less than 40% of the facilities offer reproductive health services to patients in clinics.
Tanya Evans, head of the International Rescue Committee’s office in Syria, said: “The health system in the northwest of the country is barely able to continue as the burdens have become heavy as a result of the displacement of thousands and the relocation of thousands after the last earthquake. to be stopped.”
