BAB AL-SALAMA, SYRIA — The estimated two million people displaced by Syria's civil war are fighting health issues in the heart of winter. A lack of medical supplies, crowded conditions in camps and inadequate sanitation and water supplies are creating health threats.
Morning in the camp of 10,000 Syrians made homeless by the civil war: doctors are treating a baby suffering from bronchitis. Respiratory diseases are common in this tent city where winter temperatures drop to near-freezing at night.
Bara' Al-Nasser, with the group Medical Relief for Syria, is a plastic surgeon who left his practice in Damascus -- to care for fellow Syrians who have lost everything during the nearly two years of fighting and bombings.
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