Available funding and new border crossings are still not enough to help quake-hit citizens in Syria’s battered northwest, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, adding he was “disturbed and heartbroken” by a visit to the opposition-run region. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking to reporters on Wednesday after visiting a hospital in the area.
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