“You want us to wash our hands?” asked Fadi Mesaher, the Idlib director for the Maram Foundation for Relief and Development. “Some people can’t wash their kids for a week. But the international response has been slow to nonexistent, according to more than a dozen experts and Syrian medical professionals. It’s crippled.”Hedinn Halldorrson, a spokesman for the World Health Organization’s cross-border efforts in southern Turkey, said Wednesday that the WHO expects test kits to arrive in Idlib next week. Relief and medical workers fear that even when test kits and protective gear do finally arrive, they may be too little too late.

Source: bd News24 March 20, 2020 08:03 UTC