Syrian Refugees: Waterloo Region and Mike Stephenson

syrian refugees: As 1,187 Syrian refugees flooded into Waterloo Region last year, Stephenson took almost half as new patients, according to The Waterloo Record. His caseload increased by almost 50 per cent. Mike Stephenson is by the side of each refugee who walks into the Kitchener health-care centre he set up specifically for them. Now the centre has 1,700 patients, plus a waiting list. Cerebral palsy is a lifelong disability that can be caused by lack of oxygen at birth. He has seen children who were born with cerebral palsy because the mother couldn't reach a hospital to give birth, or the hospital had been bombed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.