Syrian Refugee Life Center
What We Provide:
World Compassion Fellowship (WCF) has established medical and dental clinics in the Middle East to provide essential healthcare services to refugees and the local population. The Refugee Life Center, launched by WCF, offers primary medical care, dental services, and more. WCF sponsors the costs for medical staff, pharmacy supplies, lab work, and medical equipment.
- Local staff salaries to provide primary medical and dental care services
- Subsidies for medication, specialist referrals, laboratory, ultrasound, and other services
- Health care seminars and promotion for the community
Our Mission
The WCF Life Center is a community medical center that provides affordable and subsidized primary medical care to war refugees and marginalized peoples in partnership with local ministries that share the same heart and mission.
Medical Services
Primary medical care – such as infectious disease treatment and chronic illness management
Specialized care and referrals: women's health issues, pediatrics, perinatal care, psychiatric
Subsidized medication, laboratory, ultrasound, and other services
Health care seminars and promotion for the community
Minor dental surgeries
Extraction treatment
Endodontic restoration of teeth
Pediatric dental treatment
Our Clinics are all staffed with local professionals - Dentists, OB/GYN, Family Doctors, Nephrologists, Social Workers, and Nurses.
The Background
The Syrian Civil War is considered one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. Since it started in 2011, the UN reports that more than 300,000 civilians have been killed in the conflict and millions have been displaced. The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, and Syria’s collapsing economy and persistent insecurity continue to uproot thousands of people from their homes and have left shortages and lack of services at every level. Refugees have fled to other countries throughout the Middle East, often living in tents for years without the legal right to work, access to healthcare or education.
Many in urban slums and refugee camps do not have access to clean water and suffer from food scarcity. With an acute shortage of medical facilities and resources many medical practitioners often perform their work without adequate equipment.
The Turkey-Syrian earthquake of 7.8 magnitude that hit the region in early February 2023 exacerbated the humanitarian crisis. 54,000 throughout the region died, with millions left homeless. Learn more about the earthquake and our response here.
WCF History In The Region
World Compassion Fellowship has treated more than 28,000 patients in 16 countries in our Mobile Medical Clinics since 2007. The Clinics provide primary care, treatment for infectious diseases such as malaria, treatment for acute and chronic conditions, and other needed medical services and health promotion events. WCF has organized Mobile Medical Clinics in the Middle East since its inception in 2007.
WCF also launched two Medical Life Centers in Lebanon that have collectively treated more than 7,000 patients since 2018.