Blast Injuries: The Impact of Explosive Weapons on Children in Conflict

Source: Save the Children International. Published: 5/2019. This 24-page paper highlights some of the devastating effects of blast injuries on boys and girls. It provides details about how the world ’s worst modern conflicts expose children to explosive weapons – rockets, mortars, grenades, mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). In these situations, children have a disproportionate requirement for health services, both surgical and otherwise, and experience injuries of a greater in tensity than adults. (PDF)
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