For security reasons, access to the database can take place only indirectly through the DREAM Software: the users (the coordinator, doctors, nurses and operators) do not have the privilege of direct access to the database.
Abbreviation: CCL, Cancer Control and Supportive Care COG, Childrenn's Oncology Group CRAA, Clinical research associate; IRB, Institutional review board; NP, Nurse practitioner; CRC, Clinical research coordinator; MD, Medical doctor.
"There is a big discrepancy," said Dr. Mego Terzian, Syrian coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, which operates two hospitals at undisclosed locations in the opposition-controlled zone.
A feeding center for the most severely malnourished babies has watched its load triple to more than 200 in the last few months, said Dr. Kurt De Block, the local coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, which runs the clinic.
But malaria death rates in some villages are five times the normal rate, said Dr. Pauline Horrill, an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders.
Last week Sudanese authorities told a coordinator for Doctors Without Borders to leave, though they later permitted the coordinator's return.
"With so much overcrowding, displacement and need, people are very angry," said James Kambaki, the Baluchistan coordinator for Doctors Without Borders.
"We are talking about a government that has the means," said Stephan Goetghebuer, East Africa coordinator for Doctors Without Borders.
"The situation is getting worse by the day," said Tara Newell, an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, who spoke by satellite phone from the camp on Friday evening.
As a result, said Siobhan Isles, project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, they have been without shelter, sleeping on the ground, since they arrived.
"It's kind of the family looking after each other," said Mike Seawright, a field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, whose medical workers treated arriving Syrians for an assortment of ailments like dehydration and diarrhea, but not war wounds.
