Internal Warnıngs in Syria, Reflectıons from 950 km Away at An Emergency Service
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Background: The war leads people to leave their countries in masses and migrate to other countries. As a result, in areas where refugees or asylum seekers have heavily emigrated, there are a number of problems such as transportation to the health institutions, poor living conditions, malnutrition, language and education problems, inadequate cleaning conditions, economic difficulties, lack of social security and negative effects on the health system. In this study, it was aimed to examine the reflections of the refugee movement, which is caused by internal conflicts in Syria, to an emergency service 950 km away from the conflicts.
Method: This study was carried out in the Kütahya Evliya Çelebi Training and Research Hospital Emergency Service between the dates of 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2017. 879 patients were retrospectively reviewed for age, gender, application form, referral complaints, diagnosis, follow-up and treatment locations.
The democratic and clinical characteristics of this study including the patients of Syrian nationals who applied to the Emergency Service of Kütahya Evliya Çelebi Education Research Hospital between 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2017 were examined.
Results: During the study period, it was found out that the applications to the emergency medicine clinic constituted 0.9% Syrian nationals. 491 of the cases (55.9%) were female, 388 (44.1%) Patients were evaluated in two groups as traumatic and non traumatic causes in terms of application complaints. The most common complaints were abdominal pain (17.2%) and the most common cause of trauma was soft tissue trauma (9.3%). If we look at the distribution of refugee patients according to years, the number of refugees who applied to our emergency department in 2015 was 147, 243 in 2016 and 489 in 2017.
Conclusions: It is predicted that conflicts will not cease in the near future, and thus it is considered that more refugees will ask to benefit from Turkish health services in the future, and therefore the studies should be carried out in this regard
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Emine Kadıoğlu
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Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Eylül 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
26 Temmuz 2018
Kabul Tarihi
28 Eylül 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 26 Sayı: 3