⚠️ 📢 Syria’s #healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, with widespread infrastructure destruction, severe shortages of medicines and supplies, a shrinking health workforce, and the closure of several medical facilities

🔹 The absence of effective state institutions to provide basic services and the population’s near-total reliance on humanitarian aid further compounds the crisis

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📰 Report: Euro-Med HR Monitor (prime source)

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6797/Syria%E2%80%99s-healthcare-system-nears-collapse-amid-worsening-conditions-and-reduced-foreign-aid

Syria’s healthcare system nears collapse amid worsening conditions and reduced foreign aid

Ongoing instability in Syria poses a grave threat to the provision of essential health services, as an estimated 15.8 million people are in need of medical assistance

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

*Add: 🔹 Key turning point was the decision by the administration of #US President Donald Trump to halt #USAID programmes, cutting off one of Syria’s main sources of medical support

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