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The Management of the Khan Al-Assal Chemical Attack in Aleppo University Hospital (AUH)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 February 2018
Abstract
On March 19, 2013, Khan al-Assal was attacked with chemical weapons. In total, 20 people were killed and an additional 124 were injured; 63 people were cared for at Aleppo University Hospital on that day, where 14 died, all of them were civilians; 7 men, 6 women, and 1 child. This is a brief first hand report, for what has now become a more frequent, more deadly and horrific event in the lives of many Syrians. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:663–665)
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- Report from the Field
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- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , October 2018 , pp. 663 - 665
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- Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2018
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