7-30 | Syrian refugees in neighbouring Turkey may have evaded the guns and missiles, but there is no escape from the physical and emotional scars of the conflict Ahmed BEIDUN displays his medical certificate while his son plays on the floor nearby. Ahmed lost his left foot during an airstrike in Aleppo, and this document, which proves the seriousness of his injuries, was what allowed him to cross the border that separates Syria from Turkey.
7-29 | Airstrikes and clashes dominate daily life in Syria Alia MOSA lies on a bed in a hospital in northern Syria. Her feet are wrapped in bandages. She is angry and despairing, and desperate to tell her story. “It was 5 am,” she says. “They launched missiles and my house was totally destroyed. Four of my children were killed and I was injured. One of my daughters and my husband survived.” Alia swears she will never go back to Aleppo, the city in northern Syria where she lived until days ago.
7-25 | A Syrian doctor working with MSF explains the medical needs now that Syria is at war. “This place used to be a school. It has now become an out-patient clinic; it comprises an in-patient doctor, a pediatrician, a gynecology clinic. The proportion of patients with diabetes and hypertension has exponentially increased.
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Steve Rubin, MSF surgeon, talks about the medical needs in Syria
“Before the war, people in Syria had good quality care. Some of the people really want that care again. So they come in here because they don’t have any other options to go to anymore.
Other than us, everybody else is doing war trauma, so the other hospitals can’t help them for most pathologies. That’s why we’re here... we’re trying to fill a gap for them.
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In Syria the number of people in need of urgent medical care keeps increasing. MSF runs six hospitals, four health centres and several mobile clinic programmes inside Syria. While these medical programmes are undoubtedly saving dozens of lives every day, the extremely high insecurity means that MSF's reach is limited. Throughout most of the country, there are places where medical services are either limited or totally absent.