Published : 14-01-2016
The plight of people in Yarmook camp has been aggravated owing to the continuing cut of running water for the 484 days respectively. The electricity is still cut off also, and the danger of the ongoing cut affected all sectors dramatically. People in Yarmook camp are forced to walk for long distance to secure drinking water, which means more risks on their lives in some critical areas. It is mentioned that "Abdallah Ahmad Abdallah" 52-years-old had been killed by shelling targeted the water filling point in the neighbourhood of Tadamoun last September.
The running water network had been stopped operating by Syrian authorities since 9 September 2014, Which forced relief institutions, working inside the camp, to reclaim and run some artesian wells.
Regarding the medical sector; the laboratory analysis, carried out by the charitable medical complex inside the camp, indicated that water from the artesian wells is undrinkable and is for external use only. The results of laboratory tests revealed high percentages of some chemical materials such as calcium, sodium and potassium which prove the rise in concentration of the calcium ions, the statement of medical complex declared. Meanwhile, activists assured that kidney diseases have spread in the camp largely as a result of the heavy reliance on contaminated wells water.
The plight of people in Yarmook camp has been aggravated owing to the continuing cut of running water for the 484 days respectively. The electricity is still cut off also, and the danger of the ongoing cut affected all sectors dramatically. People in Yarmook camp are forced to walk for long distance to secure drinking water, which means more risks on their lives in some critical areas. It is mentioned that "Abdallah Ahmad Abdallah" 52-years-old had been killed by shelling targeted the water filling point in the neighbourhood of Tadamoun last September.
The running water network had been stopped operating by Syrian authorities since 9 September 2014, Which forced relief institutions, working inside the camp, to reclaim and run some artesian wells.
Regarding the medical sector; the laboratory analysis, carried out by the charitable medical complex inside the camp, indicated that water from the artesian wells is undrinkable and is for external use only. The results of laboratory tests revealed high percentages of some chemical materials such as calcium, sodium and potassium which prove the rise in concentration of the calcium ions, the statement of medical complex declared. Meanwhile, activists assured that kidney diseases have spread in the camp largely as a result of the heavy reliance on contaminated wells water.
