Syria: Health Sector | Syria Hub - Flash Update | Monitoring violence against healthcare, Flash Update #21, Date: 24/07/2017

Location Syrian Arab Republic, Deir-ez-Zor governorate, Al-Mayadin town

HF Name & Type Vaccination campaign in Al-Mayadin town

Incident

-One day before the campaign, a rented van by polio programme was hit by an air strike and totally destroyed. No human injuries were reported

• On 24 July an air strike hit Al-Mayadin town at 8:30 am. One of the supervisors’ cars has been indirectly damaged, but no human injuries were reported.

Prior Health Facility condition -

Impact Some children have not been vaccinated because their families were afraid to get out of their houses to vaccination centres.

Source of information OCHA - Syria