Open letter: let us treat patients in Syria

Brundtland, Gro Harlem; Glinka, É. D.; Hausen, Harald zur; d'Avila, Roberto Luiz

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(13)61938-8

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“…And just a year ago, we published an open letter on Syria. 14 from Gro Harlem Burndtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway and Director-General of WHO, drawing attention to an issue of violations of medical neutrality. Open Letters can be valuable and powerful means to emphasise important and neglected issues of general public and political concern.…”

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Geopolitical Issues and Responsibilities of Medical and Scientific Journals

Horton¹

2015

Rambam Maimonides Med J

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Geopolitical Issues and Responsibilities of Medical and Scientific Journals

Horton¹

2015

Rambam Maimonides Med J

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“…2 Yet the global health community has not yet adapted to a situation in which the Syrian military deliberately attacks hospitals, clinics, ambulances, and other parts of the healthcare system and has forced tens of thousands of doctors to flee the country. 3,4 Rather than being a cooperative state concerned about the health of its citizens, the Syrian government uses disease and deprivation as an element of its internal war strategy against the civilian population in areas of the country considered politically unsympathetic. This includes the deliberate targeting of water treatment plants and the withholding of chlorine supplies needed to provide safe drinking waterdan effective method of reducing transmission of polio and other waterborne diseases.…”

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Defining Polio: Closing the Gap in Global Surveillance

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Almilaji²,

Langton³

et al. 2015

Annals of Global Health

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We have identified a gap in the surveillance of polio, a global threat. The current laboratory based definition, in the setting of conflict and insecurity, leads to under diagnosis of polio with potential delays and inadequacies in coordinating effective responses to contain outbreaks and eradicate polio. Breakdown in public health measures as a contributing factor is likely to result in a resurgence of previously controlled infectious diseases. The clinical definition should be reinstituted to supplement the lab-based definition.

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“…About 20 months ago, an open letter was published in The Lancet calling for patients from the Syrian civil war to be treated [1]. Specifically, the letter said, "It is our professional, ethical, and moral duty to provide treatment and care to anyone in need".…”

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“…The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to what is arguably one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. According to the Word Health Organization (WHO), 37 % of Syrian hospitals have been destroyed, 20 % are severely damaged, and more than 70 % of Syria's medical professionals have fled the country [1,2]. Since the start of this conflict, approximately 700 Syrian warinjured, most of them civilian non-combatants, have received medical treatment in Israel [3,4].…”

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