Published : 06-05-2018
In Lebanon, 61-year-old Palestinian-Syrian refugee “Aly Nabolsy,” from Az Zyabeyeh in the suburbs of Damascus, who was displaced to the Ain Al-Hilwah camp in Sidon, south of Lebanon, is suffering from an artery blockage in the heart, which requires surgery that he can not afford.
Al-Nabolsy called on the white hands and anyone who can help, to support him in securing the cost of the surgery to expand his heart vessels number 2, by balloon number 2, and number 2 saws that reach about 7 thousand dollars. UNRWA will provide $2000 according to Nabolsy, while the Palestinian embassy provided $1200. The amount due is approximately $3800.
According to the patient, he can not insure any part of the amount due to his age, his inability to work, and his poor living and economic conditions due to the lack of a stable financial resource. He is confused about how to act and to whom to resort, his life is a real danger and he has nothing but hope from Allah.
It is noteworthy that the reality of medicine in Lebanon is bitter and tragic, and the rights of the Lebanese citizen with medicine and hospitalization is deteriorating on a daily basis. According to the patients' testimonies, the poor are left to their fate, and often to their death at the doors of hospitals that are supposed to be found to relieve them of their pain and suffering.
Statistics and figures show that more than half of the Lebanese population have no health coverage or insurance. So what is it like if the patient is a Palestinian-Syrian refugee who is considered the weakest link in Lebanon. Many appeals have been made by the Palestinian-Syrian refugees to ensure their care and exhume the bodies of their families and children, as a result of their inability to pay for the hospitalization. However, their appeals went unheeded due to the absence and evasion of local and international humanitarian institutions, in general for Palestinian refugees, from carrying out this task in the human and hospital form required.
Most of the Palestinian-Syrian refugees rely on UNRWA to obtain primary medical care, with regard to surgical operations that UNRWA covers a part of. Palestinian refugees from Syria suffer from delays and barbarities in the process of obtaining medical referrals, where UNRWA requires the approval of its offices in Syria, which makes the refugee wait between 30-90 days, in which the refugee is forced whether to wait, or to search for an alternative body to provide for their treatment or surgery.
In Lebanon, 61-year-old Palestinian-Syrian refugee “Aly Nabolsy,” from Az Zyabeyeh in the suburbs of Damascus, who was displaced to the Ain Al-Hilwah camp in Sidon, south of Lebanon, is suffering from an artery blockage in the heart, which requires surgery that he can not afford.
Al-Nabolsy called on the white hands and anyone who can help, to support him in securing the cost of the surgery to expand his heart vessels number 2, by balloon number 2, and number 2 saws that reach about 7 thousand dollars. UNRWA will provide $2000 according to Nabolsy, while the Palestinian embassy provided $1200. The amount due is approximately $3800.
According to the patient, he can not insure any part of the amount due to his age, his inability to work, and his poor living and economic conditions due to the lack of a stable financial resource. He is confused about how to act and to whom to resort, his life is a real danger and he has nothing but hope from Allah.
It is noteworthy that the reality of medicine in Lebanon is bitter and tragic, and the rights of the Lebanese citizen with medicine and hospitalization is deteriorating on a daily basis. According to the patients' testimonies, the poor are left to their fate, and often to their death at the doors of hospitals that are supposed to be found to relieve them of their pain and suffering.
Statistics and figures show that more than half of the Lebanese population have no health coverage or insurance. So what is it like if the patient is a Palestinian-Syrian refugee who is considered the weakest link in Lebanon. Many appeals have been made by the Palestinian-Syrian refugees to ensure their care and exhume the bodies of their families and children, as a result of their inability to pay for the hospitalization. However, their appeals went unheeded due to the absence and evasion of local and international humanitarian institutions, in general for Palestinian refugees, from carrying out this task in the human and hospital form required.
Most of the Palestinian-Syrian refugees rely on UNRWA to obtain primary medical care, with regard to surgical operations that UNRWA covers a part of. Palestinian refugees from Syria suffer from delays and barbarities in the process of obtaining medical referrals, where UNRWA requires the approval of its offices in Syria, which makes the refugee wait between 30-90 days, in which the refugee is forced whether to wait, or to search for an alternative body to provide for their treatment or surgery.
