Friday, December 19, 2014

One million people wounded, diseases spreading in Syria: WHO

Injured boy lies at a field hospital after what activists said were air strikes by forces of Syria's President Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - One million people have been wounded during Syria's civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the World Health Organization's Syria representative said. A plunge in vaccination rates from 90 percent before the war to 52 percent this year and contaminated water have added to the woes, allowing typhoid and hepatitis to advance, Elizabeth Hoff said in an interview late on Thursday. ...








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