The secret clinic – how Syrian refugees are taking healthcare into their own hands

Syrian refugees have become so frustrated with the scarcity of medical care at the Zaatari refugee camp that they have set up their own clinics, which are kept secret from the organisations running the camp.

“We don’t want our faces on camera. This isn’t part of the government system. We don’t want to get anybody into trouble,” says Hamza, the clinic manager, who asked for his second name not to be used.

Hamza was a pharmacist by profession in Syria. With a handful of fellow citizens of the southern city of Deraa, he opened the clinic to distribute medication free-of-charge to those living at Zaatari. They buy the medicines from wherever in Jordan they can get hold of them, he says.

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The secret clinic – how Syrian refugees are taking healthcare into their own hands

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