UN-Turkey talks under way to boost cross-border aid flows into northwest Syria and allow more evacuations of those in urgent need of medical help
"We have been talking with the Turkish authorities about ways of increasing the capacity of aid crossing at the border from Turkey into northwest Syria," Mark Cutts, UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis says.The United Nations is in talks with Turkey to boost cross-border aid flows into northwest Syria and allow more evacuations of those in urgent need of medical help, such as babies in incubators, as shelling draws closer.
"We have been talking with the Turkish authorities about ways of increasing the capacity of aid crossing at the border from Turkey into northwest Syria," Cutts told reporters. Cutts shared with Reuters a message from a medical worker in the Sarmada children's hospital near the border asking advice on whether to evacuate about 80 babies and infants, including some in incubators and intensive care units.
"And there's a population now which is terrorised and traumatised and living in fear. People have been fleeing in fear, to the border area."
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