TY - JOUR
T1 - Humanitarian Outpatient Pediatric Endeavor (HOPE)
T2 - A Novel Specialist Ambulatory Health-Care Concept in Conflict Areas
AU - Mizrachi, Matti
AU - Levy, Einat
AU - Dror, Amiel A.
AU - Sela, Eyal
AU - Kutikov, Sergey
AU - Barhoum, Masad
AU - Ronen, Ohad
AU - Gruber, Maayan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health.
PY - 2023/10/2
Y1 - 2023/10/2
N2 - With the collapse of the medical system in Syria, Israel began providing Syrians with humanitarian aid, first to the war-injured and then general medical treatment. We developed a novel specialist ambulatory care concept to provide medical care for Syrian children. Children with their caregivers were transported by bus across the border from Syria to our medical center in Israel for day-stay outpatient-clinic advanced evaluation and treatment due to coordination between Syrian, Red Cross, and Israeli authorities, including Israeli Defense Forces. This retrospective field report includes 371 Syrian children treated as outpatients at Galilee Medical Center between January 2016 and September 2018. In our experience, this novel pediatric ambulatory care concept has been feasible, efficient, and successful in providing specialist care for children in a crisis region devoid of access to health care. We believe it can also serve adult patients and be implemented in other crises and disasters scenarios.
AB - With the collapse of the medical system in Syria, Israel began providing Syrians with humanitarian aid, first to the war-injured and then general medical treatment. We developed a novel specialist ambulatory care concept to provide medical care for Syrian children. Children with their caregivers were transported by bus across the border from Syria to our medical center in Israel for day-stay outpatient-clinic advanced evaluation and treatment due to coordination between Syrian, Red Cross, and Israeli authorities, including Israeli Defense Forces. This retrospective field report includes 371 Syrian children treated as outpatients at Galilee Medical Center between January 2016 and September 2018. In our experience, this novel pediatric ambulatory care concept has been feasible, efficient, and successful in providing specialist care for children in a crisis region devoid of access to health care. We believe it can also serve adult patients and be implemented in other crises and disasters scenarios.
KW - Syrian civil war
KW - conflict
KW - crisis
KW - disaster
KW - pediatric health care
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174151747&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/dmp.2023.137
DO - 10.1017/dmp.2023.137
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C2 - 37781787
AN - SCOPUS:85174151747
SN - 1935-7893
VL - 17
JO - Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
JF - Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
IS - 1
M1 - e498
ER -
