SAMS strongly condemns yesterday’s attack on the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine’s largest pediatrics facility, killing a doctor and injuring seven children among other casualties. The blast caused major damage at the hospital where 600 children were being treated at the time of the hit. “It was a scary...
On July 1, residents living in and around the last fully-functional hospital in Gaza were ordered to evacuate, causing concern that the the largest hospital in Gaza, the European Gaza Hospital, would soon become inoperable. On July 2, The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that...
World Refugee Day reminds us of an escalating and unprecedented global displacement crisis. The United Nations reports a staggering 120 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes as of May 2023, a new world record produced by the last decade plus of conflict. Syria remains the world’s...
Fallen Hero Under the Spotlight: Dr. Majd Kamalmaz The following is a tribute to Dr. Majd Kamalmaz by SAMS Member Dr Khalid Hamza written on behalf of the Psychosocial Committee. Last week, the US Government informed the family of former SAMS Member Dr. Kamalmaz that it had credible information he...
SAMS Concerned Over Rafah Escalation in Gaza; Fears for the Safety of Its Medical Volunteers Unable to Evacuate The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) expresses its grave concerns for the safety of civilians in the populous Rafah area of southern Gaza, currently facing a military incursion and a displacement of...
Malnutrition Hounds Children in Gaza: SAMS Calls for Unfettered Humanitarian Access Dr. Samer Attar, a longstanding SAMS volunteer from Chicago who just completed his third medical mission in Gaza, said malnutrition was a growing crisis there. “Every day we saw death from malnutrition, dehydration, and traumatic blast injuries,” he said...
The most significant impact of attacks on healthcare facilities has been the documented loss of life and injury. According to SAMS’ “A Heavy Price to Pay” report, a total of 123 medical staff lost their lives in the recorded attacks on healthcare facilities. Between 2013 and 2021, SAMS documented 385...
The most significant impact of attacks on healthcare facilities has been the documented loss of life and injury. According to SAMS’ “A Heavy Price to Pay” report, a total of 123 medical staff lost their lives in the recorded attacks on healthcare facilities. Between 2013 and 2021, SAMS documented 385...
The most significant impact of attacks on healthcare facilities has been the documented loss of life and injury. According to SAMS’ “A Heavy Price to Pay” report, a total of 123 medical staff lost their lives in the recorded attacks on healthcare facilities. Between 2013 and 2021, SAMS documented 385...
A Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Press Release, March 18, 2024 Today, three SAMS doctors returned from a two-week medical mission inside Gaza, carried out in conjunction with the Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA) and the Jordanian American Physicians Association (JAPA). The volunteer physicians observed that the medical sector is...
In 2022, the most profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic subsided and SAMS emerged from the global health crisis stronger and wiser. In 2022, with our experience handling critically ill patients in the newly established COVID Intensive Care Units (ICUs), SAMS began an urgently-needed ICU fellowship program. We also expanded...
The Syrian American Medical Society has joined people around the world in shock and grief, watching events unfold in Gaza and Israel over the past four days. Following a terrible pattern established in Syria and Ukraine, parties to the conflict are failing to make distinctions between civilian and military targets,...
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