WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visits an area in the northern city of Aleppo. (Credit: AFP)
GENEVA — Senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to open more border crossings with Turkey to get aid to areas of northern Syria hit by powerful earthquakes, the head of WHO said Wednesday.
"We requested that [Assad] allow additional cross-border access points, which he indicated he was open to," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing in Geneva.
"On Monday, two more cross border points were opened, allowing convoys from Turkey into the northwest of the Syrian Arab Republic."
GENEVA — Senior World Health Organization (WHO) officials asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to open more border crossings with Turkey to get aid to areas of northern Syria hit by powerful earthquakes, the head of WHO said Wednesday."We requested that [Assad] allow additional cross-border access points, which he indicated he was open to," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...