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WHY MSF FINISHED SUPPORT?
AS hospital was a very important facility in the area of Azaz and north Aleppo in general during most of the war
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But nowadays the area is well provided with health services by other hospitals and the situation of the conflict is not so critical as it used to be in the previous years of the war so the need for an emergency hospital in the area is not there anymore and the hospitals that there are around in Azaz district and around are covering quite well the needs of IDP and displaced population and the people living the area
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so basically We think that it is not needed to support this hospital as an emergency hospital. It is being handed over to another organisation which is going to continue the activities with another line and another approach to the services that will be provided, not as an emergency hospital anymore (1,14)
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IS MSF REMAINING IN THE AREA?
MSF is not leaving even if the need of emergency services of tertiary level of the hospital at Al Salamah is not so critical at the moment
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There are still a lot of humanitarian challenges in the north of Aleppo, not only in Azaz, also in Afrin and Al Bab we are covering programs and activities to support not only primary health care clinics and maternity hospitals, but also mobile clinics going to new camps and settlements of IDPs who arrived between December 2019 and March 2020 when the cease fire was signed but during these 3 months there were almost one million new displaced people arriving in the north of Idlib and in Afrin and Al Bab, these were the places most punished buy this new wave of displacement
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We have concentrated on increasing our capacities to support healthcare services, primary health services level but also in maternity hospitals in Afrin and Al Baba and we will continue to work in Azaz as well because Azaz district of north Aleppo with the biggest amount of IDPs not new ones, but IDP in the end of the day. So we have responsibility towards the joint effort for the agencies in this area as well.
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We will continue to provide with services of mobile clinics to unofficial and registered camps at least .
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And there we will see , we are in discussion on how we are going to support the needs and the gaps in this region of northern Aleppo for 2012

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WHAT DID THIS PROJECT MEAN?
It was very important, there were moments during the first moments during the first years of the war when the hospital, until 2014-5, in which the hospital played a very important role because there were no other health facilities like it is the case now or hospitals with capacity to provide service with all the calamities happening around in the area
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Combats and destruction were very intensive in Azaz, and around Aleppo city. So of course we think that the hospital did a very important role throughout the eight years of life of this hospital,
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we’ve done more than half a million consultation with more than 21000 admissions… and more than 12,000 surgeries, important critical emergency surgeries, more than 6,600 deliveries…
and yeah we have also supported vaccination with more than 70,000 vaccinations done in a moment,
in periods when no other health facilities or hospitals were capable to do so in the area, so we’ve covered a very important gap in a very critical moment, in a very difficult moment.,
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difficult to the point that there were periods during these years when we had to close the hospital several times bc of the intensification of the violence, the bombing and shelling

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Some of the staff of this hospitals were victims themselves of the violence in the area and we had fatalities among our staff to which I want to pay tribute now.


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The importance of the hospital was huge and the role of our staff in the hospital was critical for the benefit of the population in the area and also people coming from other areas throughout these years, from 2012 until 2020. (5,59)