Starved infants, wounded women crowd Syrian hospitals after Islamic State defeat

HASAKA, Syria - The paramedics’ log at al-Hol camp in eastern Syria lists the injuries and ailments of infants rushed from the battlefield to its crowded, dirty clinic: malnourishment, stunted growth, broken leg.

At the hospital, staff have had to build two portacabins on the roof that serve as a makeshift ward for the treatment of malnourished babies, crammed sometimes two or three to a cot.The exodus during intense fighting of more than 60,000 people from Islamic State’s final redoubt of Baghouz is overwhelming medical staff in eastern Syria who struggle to cope at the camp and ill-equipped hospitals.

U.S.-backed forces declared the defeat in March of Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate – the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria – after militants were driven out of the village of Baghouz where they made a months-long last stand. In the clinic at al-Hol, which is hosting more than 70,000 people displaced by violence, many people wore crude casts. One woman said she did not have enough painkillers for a wound to her hand – a long metal rod from the explosion that wounded her and killed three relatives was still lodged in her knuckle.

Many who remained in Baghouz until the end of the fighting were die-hard supporters of Islamic State who flocked from all over the world to support its violent interpretation of Islam.

Rocky14176164 Honestly, I thought this was going to be a report about the southern border. I can't tell the US from other waring nations

Do you think these women will ever come into the 21st century! Getting rid of those “tent” coverings might be a step in the right direction

Shall their ever be a time when we shall have a breakthrough from all these?!!

So are the countries who sent soldiers now sending doctors and medical aid? The great majority of these people are children. Their treatment decides if ISIS rises from the ashes of Syria or not.

It's what they wanted so Let them crack on with there sad ideology mad lives ....

When men get tired from playing war, damaged women and children remain their legacy

That state not a Islamic State! Why you don't understand? If you call it Islamic State the people can't learn Islam truly!

The only thing that group knew how to do was steal, kill, and destroy. Wicked.

Looks like a hotel for ninjas

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