WORLD_ Help unblock medical aid, doctors urge Russia

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Help unblock medical aid, doctors urge Russia

April 19, 2015

UNITED NATIONS: Two Syrian doctors urged Russian diplomats at the United Nations on Friday to put pressure on President Bashar Al Assad to allow life-saving medical supplies into a besieged city near Damascus.

The meeting came a day after the UN Security Council heard the two doctors give a detailed account of treating victims of chemical attacks last month in Idlib province.

Doctor Zaher Sahloul told the diplomats that 10 people had died of kidney failure in the besieged city of Douma because they did not have access to dialysis fluid and 23 others are at risk unless the medical aid is let in.

“The dialysis fluid is blocked. We asked for their help to get it in,” Sahloul told reporters after the one-hour meeting. Sahloul, who heads the Syrian American Medical Society, said the Russian diplomats said they would try to help unblock the aid.

The Russian mission at the United Nations confirmed the meeting, but declined to give details.

Sahloul and doctor Mohamed Tennari, who treated victims of a chlorine bomb attack on a village last month, asked the Russian diplomats to help set up “protected areas” in Syria for hospitals, schools and other civilian areas.

Sahloul said the Russian diplomats were “open to the idea.” The UN Security Council is due next week to hear an update on the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

At a previous meeting last month, UN aid chief Valerie Amos reported that 440,000 Syrians were trapped in besieged areas, more than double the total from the previous month. The United Nations is struggling to provide aid to more than 12 million Syrians, or half of the population, in need of food aid in the four-year war.

SPANIARDS ARRESTED

In a separate development, Spain’s Interior Ministry says two Spanish residents have been arrested in Turkey on suspicion of having links to terrorists and membership in the Daesh armed group.

The couple, a Moroccan man and a Spanish woman, lives in Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla.

The Interior Ministry says they travelled to Turkey in October with their 14-month-old daughter.

Turkish officials arrested the couple after they returned to Turkey from Syria to await “logistical and financial support” from Daesh, according to Saturday’s government statement.

Agencies

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