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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'A Slow Death': How the War Is Destroying Syria's Economy
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/civil-war-in-syria-destroying-economy-a-918815.htmlIt's a sector that ought to be booming. Businessman Wissam* works in hospital supplies. He sells bandages, needles and disinfectants -- all products for which there is a great need in the increasingly bloody Syrian civil war. But unfortunately, Wissam has little opportunity to sell his wares.
"More than 50 percent of the Syrian healthcare system's infrastructure has been destroyed," says the man in his mid 40s. Of the 75 state-run hospitals, just 30 remain in operation. In the embattled city of Homs, just one of 20 hospitals remains open. The Al-Kindi Hospital in Aleppo, once the largest and most modern medical facility in the country, is now a pile of ash.
Wissam is matter-of-fact about the situation. The destruction of the hospitals is widespread, he says, and those who are injured or sick receive hardly any medical care. The business is "dying a slow death," he adds.
While the world debates what its reaction should be to what was likely a chemical weapons attack in Syria last week, and the United States positions its destroyers off the country's coast, much of the focus has been on the humanitarian crisis caused by two-and-a-half years of war. But the fighting has also crippled Syria's economy, which could potentially be a factor in ending the turmoil.
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'A Slow Death': How the War Is Destroying Syria's Economy (Original Post)
xchrom
Aug 2013
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Well, isn't that the idea behind all the smoldering problems in the ME. Tear down the beautiful
kelliekat44
Aug 2013
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kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)1. Well, isn't that the idea behind all the smoldering problems in the ME. Tear down the beautiful
places, palaces, workplaces, homes and leave an ash pile of rubble for those Islamic tolerant dictators and replace them with Islamic intolerant dictators that we can control? They don't need any history or heritage..just what the west leaves. Get them divided against each other, bomb them, starve them and than take over all the resources and call it a day! Oh, and call it peace, or democracy or spring or whatever.
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