Syria’s collapsed health-care system urgently needs world’s help, MSF warns - The Globe and Mail

Syria’s collapsed health-care system urgently needs world’s help, MSF warns - The Globe and Mail:

One of the world’s most dogged medical charities says the health-care system in Syria has collapsed, unable to keep pace with not only military and civilian casualties of the civil war but also everyday conditions like pregnancies and chronic illnesses.

In an open letter last week to the global community, the group Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders) implored the U.S. and Russian governments to apply the same level of diplomatic energy to addressing an increasingly unstable humanitarian situation in Syria that they did to secure a deal on the control of chemical weapons.