Diagnoses, infections and injuries in Northern Syrian children during the civil war: A cross-sectional study.
Gerlant van BerlaerAbdallah Mohamed ElsaftiMohammad Al SafadiSaad Souhil SaeedRonald BuylMichel DebackerAtef RedwanIves HublouePublished in: PloS one (2017)
Four years far in the conflict, 64% of the studied children in four Northern Syrian governorates suffer from infections, mostly from respiratory, neurological and digestive origin, while 4% was injured or victim of intentional aggression. Substandard living conditions and the lack of paediatric healthcare put Syrian children at risk for serious infections, epidemics and morbidity, and ask for urgent international humanitarian relief efforts.