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Syria's healthcare system has crushed down to highly concerning levels with unheard diseases getting epidemic, doctors running away, and medicine shortage so dire that people get unconscious for medical treatments with metal bars.

"Across Syria, 60 percent of hospitals and 38 percent of primary health facilities have been damaged or destroyed, and production of drugs has fallen by 70 percent. Nearly half of Syria's doctors have fled the country.
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Other side of war; Horrible report of health condition in Syria

Children not just dying from violent means but from diseases that would previously either have been treatable or prevented.

Children having limbs amputated because clinics don't have necessary equipment for appropriate treatment

• Newborn babies dying in their incubators during power cuts
• Patients being knocked out with metal bars owing to a lack of anesthesia
• Patients undergoing potentially deadly person-to-person blood transfusions

According to recent estimates, more than 120,000 people had been killed through the end of 2013 and more than six million have either been displaced within Syria or driven out of the country. On average, children are sick for a staggering 10 days out of each month. A doctor says that there is widespread bedwetting in the camp among children as old as 15 – to him, a symptom of deep psychological trauma.

Doctors use false names, even with each other. Carrying medical equipment is a risk and getting caught with a stethoscope at a checkpoint could mean death or detention. An increasing number of Syrian doctors are being killed or tortured as the war grinds on between President Bashar al-Assad — who was once an ophthalmologist in England — and rebels seeking to overthrow his regime.

Doctors risk murder and torture for treating the wounded in Syria’s civil war

Syria has descended from a secular society that received asylum seekers, to a cesspool of human misery, rebellion, and crimes against humanity. There seems to be axis where the evils of our globe settle, to cause festering of pain, and death. When children are caught up in the fire, it's particularly poignant and disturbing. What's more important than ever is world peace. The life-boats are full, and there's no room for conflict without loss of homes, tranquillity, sovereignties, security and lives.

I see that Save the Children, Oxfam, World Vision, Amnesty International, Act For Peace, CARE and Caritas are going to supply speakers. Let's hope that these organisations are not going to present yet another western version of events there, like we hear every night on the news. Will they highlight how Syria looked after a huge population prior to western interference with tribes and will they acknowledge that it is Australia, the USA's and other 'allies' interference in politics thru illegal wars in the Middle East that is causing most of the asylum seekers that try to make it to Australia?