Over 11,000 Syrian Refugees Treated at Moroccan Zaatari Hospital in January

by PH February 20, 2017, 3:10 pm

In this Monday, May 6, 2013 photo, Moroccan field hospital doctors rush Um Eliaf, 22, on a stretcher after delivering her baby, Ibtesam, at the Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border, in Mafraq, Jordan. Pregnant Syrian women say they never imagined giving birth outside their beloved homeland and inside a tough desert refugee camp across the border in Jordan where they battle heat, dust and to get enough drinking water. But doctors at the Zaatari camp boast of delivering more than a dozen of Syrian babies every day there. Among the births are at least two, sometimes up to five Caesarian sections, performed exclusively at the Moroccan field hospital, run by the North African stateís military. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Some 11,464 Syrian refugees received medical services at the Moroccan field hospital in Zaatari camp, North-east of Jordan, in last January.

According to the statistics provided by the hospital administration, children were on the top of those who were extended health services with 4,542 cases, followed by women (3,810) and men (3,112).

As many as 3,031 emergency cases, 1,238 pediatric cases and 2,600 general medicine cases were referred to the hospital.

Some 8,749 prescriptions were offered by the different departments of the hospital to patients and 77 surgical operations were carried out by the hospital staff in last January.

The Moroccan field hospital, located on the borders between Jordan and Syria, has a capacity of 60 beds.

-moroccoworldnews.com