Syrians’ alternative to a health care system: “field hospitals”

Alahdab, Fares; Omar, Mustafa Haj; Alsakka, Saeed; Al-Moujahed, Ahmad; Atassi, Bassel

doi:10.4103/2231-0770.133329

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“…The combination of criminalisation of care to civilians in opposition to the government and the attacks on large health facilities has led to the need to create field hospitals in homes, schools, basements, mosques, and even caves to treat casualties on-site and to stabilise patients so they can be safely transported to permanent medical facilities. 52 Many challenges complicated this strategy. 53 The dwindling number of providers in non-governmentcontrolled areas and exodus of older and more experienced doctors has left critical gaps.…”

Section: The Need To Do It Allmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet –American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Fouad

Sparrow

Tarakji³

et al. 2017

The Lancet

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Section: The Need To Do It Allmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet –American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Fouad

Sparrow

Tarakji³

et al. 2017

The Lancet

220

286

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“…On March 2011, anti-government demonstrations began in Syria as part of what has been labeled as the “Arab Spring”. The civil war in Syria that started as merely peaceful demonstrations amid the regional Arab Uprising, has inflicted devastating losses on all levels and sectors including health [ 4 , 5 ]. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Syria’s civil war has resulted in more than 250 000 deaths and displaced more than 4.8 millions [ 6 ].…”

Section: The Syrian Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Health Care Workers in the setting of the “Arab Spring”: a scoping review for the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria

Bou-Karroum

Daou

Nomier

et al. 2018

Journal of Global Health

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Background“Health Care Workers in Conflict Areas” emerged as one of the priority themes for a Lancet Commission addressing health in conflict. The objective of our study was to conduct a scoping review on health workers in the setting of the Syrian conflict, addressing four topics of interest: violence against health care workers, education, practicing in conflict setting, and migration.MethodsConsidering the likelihood of scarcity of data, we broadened the scope of the scoping review to include indirect evidence on health care workers from other countries affected by the “Arab Spring”. We electronically searched six electronic databases. We conducted descriptive analysis of the general characteristics of the included papers. We also used the results of this scoping review to build an evidence gap map.ResultsOut of the 11 165 identified citations, 136 met our eligibility criteria. The majority of the articles tackled the issue of violence against health care workers (63%) followed by practicing in conflict setting (19%), migration (17%) and education (10%). Countries in focus of most articles were: Syria (35%), Iraq (33%), and Bahrain (29%). News, editorials, commentaries and opinion pieces made up 81% of all included papers, while primary studies made up only 9%. All the primary studies identified in this review were conducted on Iraq. Most of the articles about violence against health care workers were on Bahrain, followed by Syria and Iraq. The first and corresponding authors were most frequently affiliated with institutions from non-Arab countries (79% and 79% respectively).ConclusionsResearch evidence on health care workers in the setting of the “Arab Spring” is scarce. This review and the gap map can inform the research agendas of funders and researchers working in the field of health care workers in conflict setting. More well-designed primary studies are needed to inform the decisions of policymakers and other interested parties.

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“…When the number of victims and injuries are affected in certain areas, establishing a mobile FH is inevitable (9). Usually, a mobile FH in wars is made based on three principles of availability, health, and conditions of launching facilities such as water, electricity, and concealment (10). According to the importance of FH in saving injuries in crisis circumstances, as mentioned above, and since there is no comprehensive research that has reviewed these types of hospitals, the aim of this study was to present the latest information of hospitals in terms of structure, serviceability, placement, equipment, and other indices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Field Hospital in Disasters: A Systematic Review

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Background: Field hospitals (FH) can be mobile or fixed. The main goal of FHs foundation is providing health care and save injuries caused by disasters or providing emergency medical operations. However, preparing a safe and fast-erupting structure and facility is very important. Objectives: In this systematic review study, field hospitals structure and facilities erupted during disasters were reviewed. Methods: In the present study, a systematic review was performed following the PRISMA guideline. To identify the articles, MEDLINE, web of science, Google scholar, PubMed, Persian journals and databases were searched to find related papers. Results: After full text screening as the final screening step, in total 20 papers were entered in the study. Findings showed that structures use for establishing an FH are usually tents, using vehicles (trucks and buses), pre-fabricated steel, and concrete structures. The FHs were used for war and earthquake disasters. Conex, tent, steel, and concrete structure are the most used structures for FH in wars, while tents are the most common structure used for natural disasters. Conclusions:The present study reviewed available reports on FH to collect useful data that should be focused on establishment of an FH suitable for a disaster. Furthermore, this study provided a list of the most important indexes that must be considered in proposing a type of FH. Tent structure was the most common structure for the establishment of FHs.

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Syrians’ alternative to a health care system: “field hospitals”

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet –American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet –American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Health Care Workers in the setting of the “Arab Spring”: a scoping review for the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria

Field Hospital in Disasters: A Systematic Review

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