
Bombed-out hospitals from Syria’s civil war make disaster recovery difficult for earthquake survivors
By Ora Szekely, Associate Professor of Political Science, Clark University After a pair of devastating earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria, the number of confirmed deaths continues to rise, surpassing 52,000 as of March 23. The United Nations estimates that millions of people on both sides of the border have been affected, including 9 million in Syria alone. Many across northwest Syria are enduring winter conditions without adequate shelter or access to food, drinking water, electricity, or heating fuel. Indian economist Amartya Sen famously argued that famines must be understood as problems with human origins rather than merely...
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