Summary:
The
article started out by telling a story of a Syrian woman and her daughter. The
woman noticed her daughter was not doing very well and she managed to get to
Lebanon to see a doctor. The doctor informed the woman her daughter was
starving. Starvation in Syria was once very uncommon and frankly did not
exists. A survey showed that four percent of children were suffering from starvation.
Those numbers grew, in 2012, to 5.9 percent of children in Lebanon who are Syrian
refugees and had malnutrition issues that.
Response:
Things
in Syria have become so bad. In a matter of time the country went from have health
care that was virtually free to now having children who are starving to death
and the parents are helpless. The poverty is so bad in Syria that if 10,000
children did not get immediate help they would die from malnourishment. Children
are dying and at risk for dying due to the lack of money and resources to
properly be fed. Women leave their home country for a better life and to get
treatment for their children, but still cannot seem to catch a break, because Lebanon
only offers basic care due to a lack of money and surplus in people in need. Kids
were being turned away from doctors’ offices due to costs of covering the
procedures needed was not available. Babies were facing starving to death due
to other conditions that they have and it not being deemed as an emergency. The
people of Syria are fearful for the future and so are their refugees. The place
they once knew as home is now estranged.
Date: Mar 14, 2014 1:04 PM
Title: Malnutrition
grows among Syrian children as poverty, lack of heath care take toll
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