Press Releases

For Immediate Release April 10, 2015 Washington DC - A critical lack of dialysis equipment and supplies has led to the death of 10 patients in Eastern Ghouta, and all remaining...

For Immediate Release   April 1, 2015   Washington, DC - The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is gravely concerned about an impending humanitarian disaster as the situation in Idlib,...

For Immediate Release March 31, 2015 Washington, DC - SAMS thanks the U.S. government for its generous pledge of $507 million at the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria...

For Immediate Release   March 26, 2015   Washington, DC - The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is gravely concerned about the ongoing use of chemical agents as a weapon...

For Immediate Release   March 24, 2015   Washington, DC – Today, the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) launches a new report entitled Slow Death: Life and Death in Syrian...

For Immediate Release   March 17, 2015   Washington, DC - The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of a chemical agent in...

For Immediate Release   March 3, 2015   Washington, DC - "Working in a field hospital is like death," said a Syrian general practitioner from Idlib, describing medical practice while...

For Immediate Release   February 11, 2015   Washington, DC - SAMS mourns the loss of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha,...

For Immediate Release February 9, 2015   Washington, DC - SAMS condemns the intense and brutal assaults of Eastern Ghouta and the shelling of Damascus, and calls for an urgent...