![]() In a country like Jordan, which is home to more than 600,000 refugees and asylum seekers, the influx of people has taxed already-limited services, said Ingrid Leroy, rehabilitation technical adviser at Handicap International in Jordan, in an interview with Humanosphere. Tucked in among those statistics are people suffering from injury, illness or disability who require specialized care, and find themselves far from specialists or in living situations that make day-to-day tasks challenging or impossible. As international efforts press onward to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict, millions of Syrians are struggling. The five-year-old civil war in Syria has left more than 250,000 people dead, displaced some 11 million people from their homes and caused more than 1 million injuries.
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