RT reports:
The toll from the war in Syria has crushed the healthcare system, with a new report from Save the Children revealing that infants are dying in incubators from power cuts, limbs are being cut off due to lack of equipment, and polio cases are on the rise.
A 13-page report released on Monday describes the devastating transformation of Syria’s health system since the start of the war three years ago. The nation's healthcare went from “a middle-income country, with child survival statistics to match” to 60 percent of Syria's hospitals being damaged or destroyed and almost half the country’s doctors fleeing the country.
“Across Syria, 60 percent of hospitals and 38 percent of primary health facilities have been damaged or destroyed, and production of drugs has fallen by 70 percent. Nearly half of Syria’s doctors have fled the country: in Aleppo, a city which should have 2,500 doctors, only 36 remain,” the report said.
The impact the war has had on healthcare has been “horrific,” Save the Children states, as the remaining doctors are incapable of treating all those in need of medical assistance.
"Syria's health system is now in such disarray that we have heard reports of doctors using old clothes for bandages and patients opting to be knocked unconscious with metal bars, because there are no anesthetics," the report notes. "The lack of clean water means sterilization for bandages is nearly impossible, causing the threat of infection and possible death."
Read more - http://rt.com/news/syria-healthcare-collapse-war-818/
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Washington Post - The Syrian war effect on children
When children have arrived at Syrian hospitals, their limbs have been amputated because facilities were too damaged to treat them properly. Newborns have died in incubators because of power outages. And some patients have asked to be “knocked out with metal bars” because there wasn’t any anesthesia available.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/10/the-syrian-wars-horrific-toll-on-children/
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