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Health Crisis Threatens Displaced Syrians

Published February 15, 2013

The estimated two million people displaced by Syria's civil war are fighting health issues in the heart of winter. A lack of medical supplies, crowded conditions in camps and inadequate sanitation and water supplies are creating health threats. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from a clinic in the Bab al-Salama camp in northern Syria.


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