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Artillery Shelling Targets Yarmouk and Health and Preventive Campaign for Children

Published : 22-10-2015

Artillery Shelling Targets Yarmouk and Health and Preventive Campaign for Children

Artillery fire targeted different places in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus, and no casualties among civilians, coincided with clashes broke out at the fighting lines between the Syrian army alongside the Palestinian factions and ISIS alongside Al-Nusra Front.

The PRCS in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp implemented health and preventive campaign inside schools and kindergartens, to check some cases and distribute food supplements for children who suffer malnutrition, but the results were negative and not, as had been expected, according to the children of the camp, as a result of the great disparity between the number of infected children and the amount of medicine that have been entered from outside the camp.

The PRCS has introduced, on Sunday 18th of October afternoon, a small amount of medicines to combat lice and scabies in addition to a quantity of food supplements to the Yarmouk refugee camp, as volunteers contributed to take out four difficult cases to the surgical hospital of Jaffa at Mezze area. Most cases were transferred to intensive care and the rest entered the Department of Interior diseases to complete the treatment.

It referred that a vaccinate campaign to all children of the camp were announced through loudspeakers of Palestine mosque, in the hospitals of Yalda began Monday and continue until Wednesday this week.

Residents of the camp are suffering from serious medical conditions, where numbers of jaundice and typhoid patients were recently spread among children, women, and the elderly in Yarmouk.

The diseases were spread due to malnutrition, lack of health care, and hygiene, resulting from the continued dominance of ISIS on the Yarmouk refugee camp, the aggravated siege imposed by the regular army and PFGC groups for (842) days, power outages for more than (912) days, water cut for 402 days, and the prevention of entering urgent relief and medical assistance to the camp.

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/2129

Artillery fire targeted different places in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus, and no casualties among civilians, coincided with clashes broke out at the fighting lines between the Syrian army alongside the Palestinian factions and ISIS alongside Al-Nusra Front.

The PRCS in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp implemented health and preventive campaign inside schools and kindergartens, to check some cases and distribute food supplements for children who suffer malnutrition, but the results were negative and not, as had been expected, according to the children of the camp, as a result of the great disparity between the number of infected children and the amount of medicine that have been entered from outside the camp.

The PRCS has introduced, on Sunday 18th of October afternoon, a small amount of medicines to combat lice and scabies in addition to a quantity of food supplements to the Yarmouk refugee camp, as volunteers contributed to take out four difficult cases to the surgical hospital of Jaffa at Mezze area. Most cases were transferred to intensive care and the rest entered the Department of Interior diseases to complete the treatment.

It referred that a vaccinate campaign to all children of the camp were announced through loudspeakers of Palestine mosque, in the hospitals of Yalda began Monday and continue until Wednesday this week.

Residents of the camp are suffering from serious medical conditions, where numbers of jaundice and typhoid patients were recently spread among children, women, and the elderly in Yarmouk.

The diseases were spread due to malnutrition, lack of health care, and hygiene, resulting from the continued dominance of ISIS on the Yarmouk refugee camp, the aggravated siege imposed by the regular army and PFGC groups for (842) days, power outages for more than (912) days, water cut for 402 days, and the prevention of entering urgent relief and medical assistance to the camp.

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/2129