FILE PHOTO: Youssef Ramadan, talks to his son as he sits inside a tent at Teh camp for internally displaced Syrians, in northern Idlib, Syria, May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) - In northwest Syria, where healthcare is rudimentary and those displaced by war are packed into squalid camps, the arrival of vaccines to fight COVID-19 should have been cause for relief.
Instead, a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign has met with suspicion and mistrust by an exhausted population who feel betrayed by their government and abandoned by the international community after a decade of conflict that ruined their lives.
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