Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?

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The civil war that started in 2011 has forced millions of Syrians to flee their homes, many of them children. Richard Hurley spoke to three volunteers for the charity Doctors of the World, which brings essential medical care to the world’s most vulnerable people. We’ve chosen the charity for the BMJ ’s Christmas appeal this year. Please give generously “Zaatari camp is considered the fourth biggest city in Jordan,” a volunteer medical coordinator who had recently been working there told me last week. She was speaking from the Paris headquarters of Doctors of the World. The charity asked us to keep its volunteers’ identities confidential as healthcare professionals and facilities have been targets for violence. Just inside the border, the Zaatari refugee camp began only a year and a half ago but has exploded to a population of well over 100 000 Syrian men, women, and children. The charity Doctors of the World manages and staffs two medical centres in the camp and one in a nearby town. “This situation is new for Jordan and overwhelming,” according to a volunteer pharmacist. Each centre has two general practitioners, four nurses, one psychologist, and a pharmacist and provides free primary care and drugs. Doctors of the World is also helping the Jordanian Ministry of Health train staff to respond to outbreaks of infectious disease. Video abstract “In the summer the …

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