A Devastating Toll: the Impact of Three Years of War on the Health of Syria’s Children

Publication language
English
Pages
20pp
Date published
09 Mar 2014
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Children & youth, Health, Forced displacement and migration
Countries
Syria
Organisations
Save the Children

Syria's shattered health system is forcing health workers to engage in brutal medical practices and a series of epidemics have left millions of children exposed to a plethora of deadly diseases, Save the Children says in a new report.

The report, “A Devastating Toll: the Impact of Three Years of War on the Health of Syria's Children", sheds light on a broken health system and its consequences: children not just dying from violent means but from diseases that would previously either have been treatable or prevented.