الجمعة، 24 مايو 2013

The Minister of Health, the World Health Organization calls for securing drugs for chronic diseases and the lifting of sanctions on Syria

The Minister of Health, the World Health Organization calls for securing drugs for chronic diseases and the lifting of sanctions on Syria
Article Date: 05/23/2013

Economic and agencies:

The Minister of Health Saad Naev "World Health Organization", to secure the drugs patients with chronic diseases and patients with tumors, and contribute to the rehabilitation of health facilities affected to re-offer its humanitarian services again, and attention to the reality of health of Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan from various aspects.

According to the official news agency "SANA" confirmed Naev the World Health Organization necessity, helping to lift economic sanctions and banking imposed on Syria, which directly affected the health sector and to ensure the maximum financial resources to meet the health needs of the growing sick and wounded people and the most vulnerable.

The minister between Naev that the health sector is facing challenges and public pressures, such as increasing population growth and increasing numbers of patients with common chronic diseases caused by lifestyle changes and the high cost of providing treatment.

The Minister of Health that the health institutions face in light of the current crisis, new challenges relating to economic blockade imposed on Syria, targeting the continuing her, where the targeted 54 hospitals out of which 34 hospital service permanently and 410 health centers and stealing and burning more than 400 ambulance, vandalism and looting 20 laboratory medication, some machines were dismantled, transported and sold in some neighboring countries illegally.

The minister pointed Naev to the health sector and before the current crisis facing Syria, managed to achieve a remarkable development was reflected in the health indicators, particularly related to mothers and children, ranging time coverage of most vaccines for children under the age of between 98 and 100%, has not recorded any cases of polio installed since in 1995 and have made significant strides in the eradication of measles, as the average life expectancy to 71.5 years compared with 58 years in 1970.

He added that during the past years has achieved the health sector a major development, in terms of infrastructure and human resources, as the number of health centers to 1921 health centers and hospitals to 124 hospital years ago, equipped with the best technologies in addition to medical staff and technicians highly qualified exceeded 94 thousand workers of whom 32 thousand doctors , from different disciplines.

The health minister said that Syria has been able in recent years to achieve self-sufficiency medicinal, through 72 drug-laboratory covers approximately 93% of the needs of the domestic market, while importing the ministry 7% of generic drugs such as vaccines and oncology drugs and hormonal drugs.

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