Published : 16-03-2017
The health situation in Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, has gone sharply downhill as hundreds of civilian residents sustained life-threatening diseases. All hospitals and clinics in the camp, except for the under-equipped Palestine Hospital, have gone out of operation due to the acute shortage in medical stuff and specialized practitioners as a result of the tough blockade slapped by the regime army and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) for 1,362 days in a row.
3,000 to 5,000 civilians have been trapped inside the shelter while 187 refugees died as a result of undernourishment and medical neglect.
ISIS militias have grabbed hold of large areas of Yarmouk Camp since early April 2015, in cooperation with AlNusra Front battalion. As a result, thousands of trapped civilians fled to nearby towns for fear of being killed by ISIS.
The health situation in Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, has gone sharply downhill as hundreds of civilian residents sustained life-threatening diseases. All hospitals and clinics in the camp, except for the under-equipped Palestine Hospital, have gone out of operation due to the acute shortage in medical stuff and specialized practitioners as a result of the tough blockade slapped by the regime army and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) for 1,362 days in a row.
3,000 to 5,000 civilians have been trapped inside the shelter while 187 refugees died as a result of undernourishment and medical neglect.
ISIS militias have grabbed hold of large areas of Yarmouk Camp since early April 2015, in cooperation with AlNusra Front battalion. As a result, thousands of trapped civilians fled to nearby towns for fear of being killed by ISIS.
