UNRWA Commissioner-General reviews the educational, health and relief situation for refugees in Al Sabinah and Yarmouk camps

Rural Damascus - SANA

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Philip Lazarini, was briefed on the educational, health and relief reality of the Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk and Sbeineh camps in Damascus and its countryside.

Lazarini's tour included a number of refugee schools in Al-Sabina camp, during which they watched a documentary film about the camp’s reality during the war and after its liberation from terrorism and documentary pictures of the destruction caused to the camp by terrorism. He listened in a school for a brief explanation by students of the Student Parliament about their activities and the problems they suffer from. By distance learning and the difficulties they faced during the suspension period in schools due to the Corona pandemic, as he indicated the agency's endeavor to solve the problems facing students.

He was also briefed about the health services provided at Al Sabina Medical Clinic and the Social Development Center to support people with disabilities.

In the Yarmouk camp, Lazzarini was briefed on the Agency’s facilities that were damaged as a result of the terrorist attacks, including the Yarmouk Health Center, one of the Agency’s three health centers in the camp, a number of schools, the medical point and the health services it provides in the camp.

In a statement to the journalists, Lazarini confirmed that the agency provided many services and material and food assistance and rehabilitated many of its facilities for the residents of Al Sabina camp.

He indicated that a large percentage of Palestinian refugees have returned to their homes in the camp, and the Agency provides all services to them, and there are other families who wish to return, and this requires more assistance, services and support from UNRWA, indicating that the Agency is considering the possibility of returning some services to Yarmouk camp and rehabilitating them while providing buses To transport some students to schools and a mobile clinic, pointing out that UNRWA will consider the possibility of providing more services as the number of returnees to the camp increases.

Rehab Ali and Bushra Barhoum