Syria Crisis - Emergency Health Care for Syrian Refugees in Jordan - Development and Peace 2013

September 2013 - The humanitarian situation in Syria has rapidly deteriorated over the past year as a result of the civil war in the country. The United Nations estimates that 100 000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more wounded due to the violence. Within Syria some 6.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance 4.25 million of whom are internally displaced. In addition more than 2 million Syrian refugees are living in host countries in the region. By the end of 2013 the United Nations estimates that 10 million people in Syria will need humanitarian assistance and a further 3.55 million refugees from Syria will have fled to host countries where resources are increasingly overstretched by the influx of people needing assistance. With DFATD’s support Development and Peace is providing emergency health care for up to 12 250 Syrian refugees and vulnerable people in host communities through seven medical clinics located in the urban centres of Amman Zarqa Irbid Karak Mafraq Madaba and Balqua. Project activities include: providing primary health care to Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians; referring outpatients to secondary health care facilities; providing equipment such as walkers wheelchairs and canes to patients with disabilities; and providing counseling to Syrians affected by the conflict.

The expected outputs of this project include: primary health care services provided for up to 7 000 individuals (of whom approximately 5 250 are unregistered urban Syrian refugees and 1 750 are vulnerable Jordanians from host communities with the total approximately 60 percent female); secondary out-patient services provided to 3 500 people; in-patient services provided to up to 700 people; medical accommodative tools and equipment provided to up to 350 people; and counseling services provided for up to 1 400 conflict-affected people particularly children. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.