The BMJ Appeal 2023-24: The Syrian health workers pulling 24 hour shifts to keep their maternity hospital open
Through earthquakes and civil war, the doctors and staff of the Ain Al Bayda Hospital are going above and beyond—even as a funding crisis threatens to shut them down Ghufran, a 22 year old midwife, works a 9 am to 4 pm shift in an antenatal clinic at the Ain Al Bayda Hospital in northwest Syria. She’s responsible for monthly check-ups on patients who live in one of the 58 neighbouring camps for internally displaced people, who have been unable to leave through a decade of barbaric civil war. “The biggest danger to pregnant women here is anaemia caused by malnutrition,” she says. When h...
Source: bmj.com
