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Amid growing need, refugee health workers could fill key gaps

The crisis in #Syria has tremendous effects: Mental health issues are rising; previously eradicated communicable diseases are remerging; and untreated non-communicable diseases are resulting in complications. Read how refugee health workers can fill this gap: http://wrld.bg/zXeX30byYmI

Amid growing need, refugee health workers could fill key gaps

Over the past six years, at least half of Syria’s 30,000 physicians—perhaps more, no one knows for sure—have fled the country. Like other Syrian refugees, they have gone wherever they can: Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Europe, and, in much smaller numbers, Canada and the United States.