Syrian Refugees-英语听力

[00:00.10]From VOA Learning English, [00:02.42]this is the Health Report. [00:04.91]Many Syrians have fled to Lebanon [00:07.76]to escape the conflict in their homeland. [00:11.01]Recently, reporter Jamie Dettmer [00:14.10]visited the Lebanese city of Tripoli, [00:16.45]where he found a number of Syrian refugees. [00:20.44]Among them was a six-year-old boy [00:23.54]from the Syrian town of Hama. [00:25.78]The boy listed the dangers he faced in Syria [00:29.47]from exploding rockets. [00:31.02]He explained the picture he has made of a house [00:34.71]and an artillery battery. [00:37.35]Mohamed Khalil is a Psychiatrist, [00:40.51]specializing in treatment of mental disorders. [00:43.55]He says it is not unusual for refugee children [00:47.85]from the two-and-half year long Syrian war to draw weapons. [00:53.74]He says they also often change quickly [00:56.95]from hyperactivity behavior to emotional withdraw. [01:01.74]Doctor Khalil says children [01:04.18]who have seen inhuman acts and violent death [01:08.03]often return to behavior seen in younger children. [01:12.37]He says they might suck their thumbs or wet their beds, [01:16.76]and he says they often have frightening dreams, [01:20.26]and experience restless sleep. [01:23.25]Doctor Khalil says there is a public health crisis [01:27.29]across the Middle East right now. [01:29.28]He says it gets little or no attention [01:32.77]from the media or aid groups. [01:35.12]There are no good estimates of the numbers of people [01:39.16]suffering from mental health problems in the Middle East. [01:42.35]But mental health experts say violence and political unrest [01:47.15]is causing severe depression, anxiety, [01:50.76]and post-traumatic stress disorders(PTSD). [01:54.31]The problems are often left untreated. [01:57.50]Ahmed Abdellah is a psychiatrist in Egypt. [02:01.40]He says cultural shame about mental health problems [02:05.45]can interfere with efforts to help people. [02:08.89]He says three years of civil conflict in Egypt [02:12.59]is harming the mental health of its people. [02:15.69]"The problem is there's a gap [02:20.20]between what is going on in the society [02:23.24]and between what is in clinics and in psychiatric institutes, [02:30.31]especially the governmental institutes. [02:33.59]Nowadays we have massive numbers of post-traumatic stress disorder cases. [02:42.45]But you will not find maybe any of these cases [02:48.44]in psychiatric departments," said Abdellah. [02:51.19]He also says people are left to suffer when they could be helped, [02:56.08]but he says more problems are created [02:59.27]when victims of PTSD do not get treatment. [03:03.52]"To leave somebody with trauma untreated, [03:07.02]this opens him and the society to many expectations. [03:13.75]First of all you are open for more aggression, [03:18.34]you are open for more stress and displaced stress. [03:22.19]We are open to more violence, actually. [03:27.29]If you have maybe tens of thousands, [03:31.53]maybe more of people who are suffering, [03:34.34]you could not expect them to work, [03:37.68]to share, to intervene, to interact," he said. [03:40.61]And that's the VOA Learning English Health Report. [03:44.71]For more stories about health, [03:47.41]go to our website tingvoa.com. [03:53.65]I'm Christopher Cruise.