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Syria: Reflections on a decade of war | |
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You are invited to join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Thursday, May 20 from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT. The discussion will be moderated by Arwa Damon, award-winning senior international correspondent at CNN. Panelists include
Dr. Chenery Lim, MSF medical coordinator in Syria; Joel Ghazi, MSF field coordinator for Syria; Will Turner, head of emergency operations for MSF in Syria; and Dr. Aula Abbara, consultant and honorary clinical lecturer in infectious diseases and general internal medicine at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust in London. |
Thursday, May 20
1:00 - 2:30 PM (EDT)
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Ten years of grinding war in Syria have left the country in ruins and the lives of its people shattered. The war has destroyed significant parts of Syria’s infrastructure, including its once robust health care system. Hundreds of medical facilities have been bombed. Medical personnel have been attacked, killed, or have fled. Desperate shortages of medical supplies throughout the country have led to untold suffering and death. Almost 12 million Syrians—half the pre-conflict population—have been forced to flee their homes, often multiple times. Many still live in precarious conditions facing economic instability, food insecurity, and a lack of access to basic services, especially amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Join Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for this critical discussion as we reflect on the last decade of war in Syria. Our teams have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Syria from the start—from donating medical supplies, to setting up hospitals and clinics, to providing remote support to medical facilities and networks of doctors in areas that MSF could not access directly—often against daunting odds and great risk. But the situation is bleak, with no end in sight to the conflict.
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