The medical evacuation is being managed with the WHO field presence in Gaziantep, Turkey, from which 113 ambulances as well as 17 mobile teams have been deployed and coordinated.
Eight hospitals in western rural Aleppo, Idlib, as well as hospitals in Turkey, are treating the medical evacuees, the majority of whom are suffering from trauma injuries.
Medical supplies sufficient for more than 279 000 treatments and 6000 surgeries have been provided by WHO to ensure evacuees can receive the level of care they need.
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世卫组织驻土耳其代表Pavel Ursu博士说：“到今天上午7点，194名撤离病人已抵达医院。
“By 7 this morning 194 evacuated patients had arrived at hospitals.
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其中，71人在土耳其接受治疗——其中许多属战伤，包括脑和眼损伤。
Of these, 71 are being treated in Turkey - many of them for war wounds including brain and eye damage.
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另一些人正在得到糖尿病等慢性病急需帮助，这些疾病在围困期间没有得到治疗。
Others are being given urgently needed help for chronic diseases such as diabetes that have been left untreated during the siege.
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但是还有更多存在重要需求的人员被落了下来。”
But there are many more left behind with critical needs,” said Dr Pavel Ursu, WHO Turkey Representative.
WHO, together with the rest of the UN and its partners are calling on all parties to the conflict to resume the evacuation of the injured and sick patients who are trapped in eastern Aleppo and to ensure the safety of all health workers.
Statement on the fourteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic