Newswise — In the wake of the deadly bombing of a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, the author of a recent report on the impact of the conflict on healthcare in the country is available to speak to media.
Dr. Michele Heisler, of the University of Michigan Medical School and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, was a key author on a Nov. 2015 report from Physicians for Human Rights that compiled data on how the Syrian conflict has affected healthcare facilities and workers. It found that more than two-thirds of hospitals no longer function in Syria, and roughly 95 percent of doctors have fled, been detained or killed.
Heisler and others from PHR also had an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine at the same time, warning that events in Syria may put medical facilities and workers in other conflict zones in danger too.
Read more about the report and NEJM piece here: http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201511/has-syria-painted-target-medical-teams-around-world
More about Dr. Heisler: http://www.ihpi.umich.edu/our-experts/mheisler
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