
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.