Death and suffering in Eastern Ghouta, Syria: a call for action to protect civilians and health care

Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon. Electronic address: sj22@aub.edu.lb.
• ² Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.
• ³ FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Physicians for Human Rights, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁵ Syrian Center for Policy Studies, Beirut, Lebanon.
• ⁶ Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition and Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁷ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁸ Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁹ Syrian American Medical Society, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹⁰ Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University and Doctors of the World, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹¹ CanDo, London, UK; Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
• ¹² Panzi Hospital, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
• ¹³ Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations International, Birmingham, UK.