UN ESCWA Headquarters are located in Beirut, Lebanon - AFP
NEW YORK- 11 November 2017: Some 400 civilians are in urgent need of medical evacuation from Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, including 29 who will die if they are not allowed to leave immediately, the Daily Mail quoted the United Nations as saying.
"Around 400 men, women, children... need to be evacuated now," Jan Egeland, head of the UN's humanitarian task force for Syria, told reporters in Geneva, adding that 29 of them, including 18 children "will die if they are not evacuated."
As of now, "we have confirmation of seven patients dead because they were not evacuated, some of them children," he said.
The Eastern Ghouta region, near the capital Damascus, is one of the last strongholds of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Egeland said the region was now "the epicentre of suffering" in the war-ravaged country, with some 400,000 civilians stuck in a dozen besieged towns and villages.
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