US Imposed Syria Sanctions Hit Children’s Cancer Treatment at Damascus Children’s Hospital
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Six years of conflict have brought the Syrian health service, once one of the best in the Middle East, close to collapse
By Gulf News
Damascus: In the cancer ward at Damascus Children’s Hospital, doctors are struggling with a critical shortage of specialist drugs to treat their young patients — and it’s not just due to the general chaos of the Syrian civil war.
Local and World Health Organisation (WHO) officials also blame Western sanctions for severely restricting pharmaceutical imports, even though medical supplies are largely exempt from measures imposed by the United States and European Union.
Six years of conflict have brought the Syrian health service, once one of the best in the Middle East, close to collapse. Fewer than half of the country’s hospitals are...