The heads of the WHO and UN Humanitarian Affairs arrive in Aleppo with 35 tons of aid

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ALEPPO (SYRIA), 11 Feb. (DPA/EP) –

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, arrived in the Syrian city of Aleppo this Saturday with a shipment of 35 tons of humanitarian aid. , as reported by UN sources to DPA.

The shipment includes vital medical supplies and a second aid shipment is expected within two days, the official Syrian news agency SANA has reported.

An estimated five million people have been affected by this week’s earthquakes in Syria, according to WHO delegate for Syria Iman Shankiti. In Aleppo alone there are more than 200,000 people left homeless.

In total there are at least 3,553 deaths in the areas of Syria controlled by the government of President Bashar al Assad and by the rebels.

Al Assad himself and his wife, Asma, have visited the city of Latakia this Saturday and have visited the injured by the earthquake admitted to the Tishrin University Hospital, including a woman and her son who were rescued on Friday in Yablé after five days under the rubble, reports SANA.