In a joint statement 16 civil society organizations gathered in Dêrik and called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to help the Syrian peoples who are going through a difficult process more, and said: "The coronavirus has spread all over Syria. Further spreading must be urgently contained. There is a shortage of medicines and medical personnel in the region. The Turkish state's invasion attacks make addressing this situation properly more complicated.”

The civil society organizations made the following call to the WHO:

1-Medicines to counter the coronavirus should be sent urgently to the regions registering the highest number of deaths.

2-Health supplies, special clothing and tests should also be sent.

3-Specialist healthcare professionals should be sent and fully furnished pharmacies should be opened.

4- The necessary information about how to be protected from the disease should be conveyed to the citizens living in the camps through special programs.

The organizations signing the call are as follows:

1-European Kurds Civil Society Organization

2-Koma Vejin

3-Afrin-Kurdish Alternative Movement

4-Kurdi Legal Committee

5- Kurdistan Civil Society Forces

6-Laws Research Center

7-Coma Scheherazade

8-Syrian Human Rights Organization

9-Human Rights Protection Association Kurdi Platform (Australia)

10-Syrian Human Rights Organization (MAF)

11-Rojava and the Foreign Kurdish People's Union

12-Syrian Yazidi Union

13-Syrian Women's Union (RODOZO)

14-Danish Kurds Women's Working Group

15-Denmark Sonderburg Kurdish Association

16-Afrin Media Center