Project profile
CARE Germany
Syria: a hospital for mothers and childrenIn Syria, CARE works together with local partners to provide families with food, blankets, clothing, stoves and heating materials. CARE also supplies people with hygiene and newborn packages and other important relief goods. In addition, CARE supports a Syrian clinic with medicines, materials and financial aid so that it can maintain medical care for 250,000 people.
- Project type:
- Support for a local hospital
- Location:
- Idlib, Syria
Idlib: a hospital for mothers and children
Idlib remains the scene of fierce fighting. There are injuries every day, and medical facilities have often been the target of bombardments. In many towns only a single hospital remains, such as the Maternity and Children's Hospital. For a long time the hospital worked in secret. When the money ran out, the staff carried on as volunteers, assisting births and treating the injured – as best they could.
When CARE learned of this, we decided to help immediately. For the first time in many months, the hospital now has enough medicines, electricity and water again. Every month the hospital cares for 500 small children, 140 births and 3,000 patients in total, and at the same time trains local midwives. CARE has pledged to keep the hospital running and is therefore grateful for urgently needed donations.