Syrian refugees denied health care due cash crunch: UNHCR

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Syrian refugees denied health care due cash crunch: UNHCR

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Doctors at Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan are having to decide between treating acute cancer patients and helping deliver babies due to severe shortages of cash, the United Nations said on Friday. More than 1.4 million Syrian refugees have now fled their shattered homeland for neighboring countries whose health care systems are straining to meet the needs of their populations, in some cases suddenly swollen by 20 percent, it said. But an appeal by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees for $1 billion through mid-year is only 55 percent covered. ...

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