As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, desperately needed aid is failing to reach millions of people trapped by the conflict, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Wednesday.
The health system in Syria has been devastated by the ongoing conflict, and accessing essential medical treatment is almost impossible, either due to the lack of supplies and qualified medical staff, or because of attacks against medical structures. A large-scale international humanitarian effort is desperately needed in Syria, MSF said.
From an estimated 2,500 doctors who worked in the Syrian city of Aleppo, fewer than 100 work in hospitals still operating in the city. The rest have fled, become internally displaced, or have been kidnapped or killed.