The Growing Humanitarian Crisis In Syria

UN Struggles To Provide Medical Care For Syrians -- Voice of America

GENEVA — The World Health Organization reports the health situation in Syria has progressively worsened over the last six months. And, a WHO representative in Syria says there has been a marked deterioration in the ability to provide health care to the civilian population over the past month.

The World Health Organization representative in Syria, Elizabeth Hoff, says it is difficult to provide health care to people on the move.

Speaking to journalists in Geneva by telephone from Damascus, Hoff says Agra, a town outside Damascus, has been hosting some 200,000 displaced people.

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More News On The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria

UN warns of deepening humanitarian crisis in Syria -- UN News Centre
New Problems in Syria: Hepatitis, Closed Hospitals, Ambulance Shortages -- New York Times
Diseases rife amid Syria drug shortages -- Al Jazeera
UN: Syria war causing great civilian strife -- Daily Star/AP
UN Warns Of Deepening Humanitarian Crisis In Syria -- RTT News
UN aims to feed 2.5 million Syrians -- Global Post/AFP
Syria Health Crisis: Dirty Water Diseases Spread As Hospitals Run Out Of Drugs -- Huffington Post/Reuters

Diseases rife amid Syria drug shortages -- Al Jazeera
UN: Syria war causing great civilian strife -- Daily Star/AP
UN Warns Of Deepening Humanitarian Crisis In Syria -- RTT News
UN aims to feed 2.5 million Syrians -- Global Post/AFP
Syria Health Crisis: Dirty Water Diseases Spread As Hospitals Run Out Of Drugs -- Huffington Post/Reuters
Syria: Exodus Swells Border Refugee Camps -- SKY News
Syrian refugees in Jordan expected to hit 700,000 in 2013 -- NZWeek

Update: These refugees are now fighting over blankets and tents.

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