Ms Jane-Ann McKenna:

We announced in the past month or so that we have been running operations in Syria. We currently have three hospitals in the country. We have not disclosed the location of these hospitals because it is a clandestine operation. We do not have permission to work in the country so we have been using whatever means possible to try to get treatment to people. We have been able to set up these makeshift hospitals to treat the war-wounded in Syria. We hope to expand operations as we can in Syria, but the situation is precarious. We are continuously advocating for access into Syria as well. We have failed to receive official permission to expand our operations.

We have operations running for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon and, in particular, we have mental health services for them in Lebanon, as mental health services have been identified as one of the greatest needs for those arriving from Syria. In Jordan we are running a surgical referral system in Amman. We are referring urgent cases that are coming out of Syria to our surgical facility in Amman. We are engaging with a network of doctors in Syria to try to provide supplies and resources where they need them to treat people.