Acting on the instructions of Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, Italian Development Cooperation has sent medical kits for the Syrian people suffering the effects of the humanitarian emergency arising from the violence in their country. The kits left yesterday and today, 14 June 2012, from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi.
The medical kits, which will enable over 30,000 people to be treated, will arrive directly in Damascus. From there, they will be delivered to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for distribution through the Syrian Red Crescent.
In Jordan, medical supplies for the treatment of 20,000 people will be distributed by the Italian Embassy and by Italian Development Cooperation personnel. The aid will be concentrated in the Mafraq and Ramtha regions, to which about 21,000 Syrian refugees have fled from the attacks in their country.
