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As people were forced to flee a surge of conflict in northeastern Syria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working across the border in Iraq’s Bardarash refugee camp began responding to growing needs for mental health care. “Roughly 50 percent of the people we saw during our mental health assessment in the camp were presenting symptoms linked to depression and anxiety,” said MSF mental health manager Bruno Pradal. In Bardarash—which is currently at capacity with a population of around 11,000 people from Syria, with more arriving daily—an
MSF team is going tent-by-tent to identify people in need of mental health support, provide psychological first aid, and refer particularly vulnerable people to a newly opened MSF health center within the camp. Read more. |
