08-10-2013, 05:08 PM
(08-10-2013, 04:44 PM)Mohammed Wrote: Before the shit hit the fan, I would say that Syria was one fabulous place. The biggest restaurant on the planet? Damascus. So if they got enough waiters to feed 30.000 people a day, surely they got nurses well qualified to dish out sponge bathes.
If foreigners judge the American Health Care system by Michael Moore's "Sicko", it makes Mogadishu look like a hospital filled with Swedish porn stars as doctors.
Yeah, Syria was pretty well rated overall by the W.H.O.
The main shortfall was accessibility; lots of rural areas where there were no hospitals or facilities within a very far distance.
The civil war has definitely resulted in an interruption to standard care; it's estimated about half of the doctors have left the country (but, of course, there are doctors from volunteer countries attempting to fill in).
Even with the decline, the annual national vaccination rate was 85% last year (pre-war was 90%). This again, according to objective W.H.O. stats.
Anyway, hoping some resolution comes soon for Syria. Brain drain could be a problem; will the country be able to attract back those professionals who have fled or groom new ones fast enough to re-establish and improve what was in place before? It'll probably take some time.