SFP PC-27 - Profil épidémiologique des hospitalisations pédiatriques à l’hôpital militaire marocain de campagne du camp de refugiés ZAATARI (Jordanie 2013)

Report on paediatric care in the Moroccan military mission in the Gaza Strip

“…The most common diagnoses were for pulmonary and gastroenterology diseases, with high frequencies of influenza-like illness, lower and upper respiratory tract infection and digestive parasitic infections. It is worth noting that in a similar humanitarian action deployed by the Moroccan Military field Hospital in Zaatari Camp, the epidemiological profile of Syrian refugee children shows dehydration as the primary reason for admission (64%), followed by urinary infections (15%) then pulmonary diseases (10%) (2). In a similar study by Benjelloun et al in the Zaatari Camp, asthma was the most prevalent disease in males under age 18 years (3).…”