Via ReliefWeb, a report from WHO: Syrian Arab Republic, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt Situation Report Issue 10 | 10 February 2013. Click through to download the report as a PDF. The highlights:
An outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis has been reported in the Syrian Arab Republic.
WHO has provided health facilities with medicines and other essential supplies which will strengthen the capacity of health facilities to provide basic health care to 165 000 patients. In addition, it will enable health facilities to have access to supplies in order to undertake and properly manage about 200 surgical interventions.
The number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan is now exceeding 3000 a day which has stretched the current response capacity of WHO and other partners, and in the absence of additional support to WHO it will be highly challenging to provide adequate and needed support.The report itself says Syria is dealing with 955 leishmaniasis cases, mostly from four governorates: Hamah, Hassaka, rural Damascus, and Homs. And that's just a small part of the horrendous health issues facing Syrians both in their own country and in the refugee camps.
