MEDICAL APPEAL SYRIA
The scale of the humanitarian crisis in Syria is enormous. The UNOCHA state that 15.3 million people are in need of healthcare provision in Syria. The medical crisis has continued to escalate during the years of conflict and the current situation is a disaster.
Abdominal surgery performed by one of our teams in a field hospital we ran during the height of the fighting.
Around 60% of hospitals have been destroyed, damaged, closed, or are functioning at a reduced capacity. This is at a time when the Syrian people need medical care most. For the majority, a good standard of care is hard, if not impossible to access. The pandemic, fuel shortages, water shortages and the exodus of doctors out of Syria has exacerbated this even further.
One of the greatest humanitarian priorities for the people inside Syria is trustworthy medical care. People are dying from treatable conditions because they cannot access medical care at the level they need. It is life or death for many of these people.
We are focusing on playing a part in rebuilding some of the essential life-saving medical infrastructure that has been lost during the war, and providing the most basic health services for the poor. We have opened a permanent medical centre, and plan to open a second by the end of 2024 to provide urgently needed medical care, and are building a third which should open in 2025.
We are currently equipping these first two centres, and keen to raise funds towards buying and equipping ICU ambulances to serve each centre. If you can help in any way please use visit our SUPPORT page and choose our “Medical” account on the giving form.
Over the years we provided four temporary field hospitals at different times and in different places, providing medical support to over 70,000 people. Currently, our focus is on establishing and providing permanent medical facilities as people need medical services they can trust for the long term. Please see our MEDICAL CENTRES page.
If you have links to medical equipment suppliers who may be able to supply high quality medical devices and ex demo equipment in excellent working order please CONTACT us.
Read the true, heartening story of our lead doctor in Syria. Up From the Ashes tells the story of a poor boy born to a Christian family in Syria, who pursued his childhood dream to become a doctor. When one of the most destructive and brutal wars of our generation broke out, he stayed to serve his people when millions of others fled, and his life took on a new journey, while his faith developed into one refined by fire which will challenge and inspire many western readers to reconsider their own priorities in life.