We wanted to make sure you saw our message regarding the compounding crises in northeast Syria. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve raced to respond and keep our vital programs running as fragile health care systems have been pushed to the brink.
Not only are our teams working to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in northeast Syria, we also have teams providing medical care to people in Burkina Faso who have been displaced from their homes in the face of escalating violence, and our teams in South Sudan are treating measles, malaria, and other disease outbreaks as a result of severe flooding in the region. These are just a few examples of the lifesaving care we’re providing in more than 70 countries around the world.
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Friend,
In northeast Syria, more than 700,000 people have been displaced and suffer from extremely limited access to health care. Now, the spread of COVID-19 across the region is having devastating consequences.
Between May and August, the number of primary care clinics in Al-Hol, the largest camp for displaced people in the region, fell drastically from 24 to just five, leaving only a handful of trained medical professionals to care for more than 65,000 people. More than 90 percent of the camp’s residents are women and children; two-thirds of them are under the age of 18. Clean water is scarce, sanitation conditions are dire, and physical distancing is nearly impossible.
Medical teams from Doctors Without Borders are responding in northeast Syria to the spread of COVID-19 and the critical lack of access to health care in the region. But it’s clear more assistance is needed. Friend, we can’t let COVID-19 stretch northeast Syria’s already fragile health system to the breaking point.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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