EU cash injection boosts health care services for Syrian refugees in Turkiye

ANKARA, 08 December 2022, (TON): A new 400-bed hospital, built with €50 million of EU funding, opened to patients on Tuesday in the border city of Kilis in southeastern Turkiye.

The project, one of the largest funded by the EU, is part of the bloc’s continuing investment in health infrastructure in the country to improve medical services for Syrian refugees and their host communities.

It is managed by the Council of Europe Development Bank and the Turkish Ministry of Health.

Kilis is just a few miles from the border with Syria and often witnesses exchanges of artillery fire in the civil war that has devastated its neighbor. It previously had only one public hospital, which opened in 2007, to serve the needs of both the native and refugee population.

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