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The Impact of the Devastating Turkey-Syria Earthquake on the Fragile Health Care System in War-Torn Syria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary Open the ORCID record for Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary [Opens in a new window] ,
Sadia Ashraf ,
Sarya Swed  and
Sheikh Shoib
Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary*
Affiliation:
Environment and Sustainability Research Initiative, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh Environmental Science Discipline, Life Science School, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh
Sadia Ashraf
Affiliation:
Environmental Science Discipline, Life Science School, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh
Sarya Swed
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria
Sheikh Shoib
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Srinagar, Kashmir, India
*
Correspondence: Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary Environment and Sustainability Research Initiative Khulna 9208, Bangladesh E-mail: raju.es111012@gmail.com
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earthquakehealth careTurkeySyriawar

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , August 2023 , pp. 537 - 538
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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