17 October 2023, Cairo, Egypt – Protracted conflicts, natural disasters and climate change-related disasters are significantly increasing in frequency and magnitude in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Preparedness and international cooperation are urgently needed to protect lives and health infrastructure amid these and other emergencies. “In 2023...

Cairo, 4 December 2022- Twenty-three experts from the WHO Regional Offices for the Eastern Mediterranean and Africa met in Kigali, Rwanda, participated in training for research on attacks on health care workshop between 21 and 26 November 2022.   The workshop aimed to demystify the operational research process and build capacity of frontline...

8 June, Cairo – During a first-of-its-kind event, 27 participants from the WHO Regional Offices for the Eastern Mediterranean, Africa and Europe met in Istanbul to participate in the Leadership in Health Emergencies Phase 2 workshop between 17 and 20 May 2022. The workshop aims to build a cadre of health emergency leaders that can lead WHO’s emergency...

27 March 2022 - The preparation for the second phase of the Early Essential Newborn Care (EENC) training programme started early January 2022 by having a coordination meeting with Sexual Reproductive Health Technical Work Group to select the targeted maternal hospital and the list of participants. This was followed by visiting the hospital...

Northwest Syria, 24 February 2022 — A fruitful partnership between WHO and the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) is further extending its health care support to the people of northwest Syria by initiating a telemedicine consultation service — the first of its kind in the Region — in collaboration with the Syrian Expatriates...

26 January 2022, northwest Syria – As a snowstorm devastated the conflict zone of northwest Syria, WHO and the Health Cluster mobilized efforts to deploy rescue health services to the affected region, home to some 4.4 million people with little to no infrastructure. On top of COVID-19, a severe snowstorm swept through northwest Syria on the night of 18...

15 November 2021- As WHO is dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the greatest number of people, particularly those most in need, it works with the MENTOR Initiative in northwest Syria – where IDP Camps house dense concentrations of displaced Syrians living in squalid conditions – to combat Leishmaniasis, a parasitical disease spread by the...

21 October 2021 - Last week, an EWARN training was conducted in Gaziantep, Turkey by WHO’s Field Presence Office, with kind support by WHO EMRO. The EWARN training was supported by Technical Officers from WHO EMRO for two weeks and culminated in a 3-day event held in Gaziantep. The overall goal of the training was to aid and teach Country Level...

16 October 2021- Generated in response to the coordination needs between the multiple NGOs managing dialysis units in northwest Syria, WHO’s Dialysis Taskforce was established by the Health Cluster as an emergency project with Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, to analyze long-standing deficiencies, problems and challenges in hemodialysis...

20 September 2021- The onset of COVID-19 has further challenged the already exhausted healthcare system in countries of conflict such as Syria. To prevent its collapse, the WHO has unremittingly supported Syria’s healthcare system - whether before the emergence of COVID-19 or since -- by providing supplies and ensuring access to healthcare. Meet...