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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Aid Cuts Threaten Hospitals in Syria's Idlib

Air strikes still target Idlib region. Smoke billows from the Al-Arshani water station, reportedly hit by a Russian airstrike, on January 2, 2022 OMAR HAJ KADOUR AFP/File

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib region.

The United Nations has appealed for urgent help from donor nations whose largess has been sapped by the Covid pandemic and fatigue with the decade-old Syrian war.

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