21 June 2018•Update: 22 June 2018
By Ali Ebubekir Tokcan
ISTANBUL
Turkey continues to be the world’s most hospitable country by hosting 3.5 million refugees, said a U.K.-based NGO.
According to a statement on World Refugees Day issued by Doctors Worldwide Turkey, the countries from where the most refugees come are Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan.
Minors constitute more than half of the refugees. One of the biggest problems for refugees is inadequate access to health care, it added.
"Doctors Worldwide continues to work for refugees' health in various geographical areas," it stressed in the statement.
Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, Syrian refugees have been offered primary health services, psychosocial support; Syrian hospitals have been supported and equipment and medical supplies have been provided, it said.
"Doctors Worldwide is the sole organization that provides medical care in a refugee camp in the southern Sido village in Chad. During 2017, a total of 7,710 patients in this camp were freely treated," it noted.
In Afghanistan, medical camps, cataract operations and food distribution activities are regularly carried out.
The mother, child and nutrition health center has just begun to be operational in Somalia beside the camp where the internal refugees are located, it said.
"More than 65 million people have been displaced due to persecution, conflict, widespread violence or violations of human rights," Yahyahan Guney, who chairs Doctors Worldwide Turkey told Anadolu Agency.
"There are many refugees, among those who have been displaced, who cannot receive health care," Guney said.
