Published : 03-06-2018
Dozens of displaced people from south Damascus and Yarmouk refugee camp in the Deir Balout refugee camp in north Syria, are suffering from sickness and diarrhea, amid a decline in the medical services provided to the displaced.
Activists from inside the camp said that there are more than 100 cases of severe diarrhea among the children, resulting from high temperatures and the lack of potable water.
As for the lack of medical services, the activists added that there is not a single specialist doctor in the Deir Balout camp, to provide the necessary treatment. Two voluntary nurses supervise the treatment process in a tent that stands hopeless of providing services, due to lack of proper medical diagnosis and lack of medication.
The activists noted that the nearest medical point or hospital is no less than 5 km away from the camp, with no means of transportation such as ambulances or free transport. This is expensive for the dozens of forcibly displaced families from south Damascus, which suffer from difficult humanitarian conditions in hastily prepared camps.
The refugees called on UNRWA to assume immediate responsibility towards them, since the Agency refuses to provide any services to the displaced Palestinian refugees in the north of the country. They also appealed to the Turkish Red Crescent to provide urgent health care to the patients in the camp.
Dozens of displaced people from south Damascus and Yarmouk refugee camp in the Deir Balout refugee camp in north Syria, are suffering from sickness and diarrhea, amid a decline in the medical services provided to the displaced.
Activists from inside the camp said that there are more than 100 cases of severe diarrhea among the children, resulting from high temperatures and the lack of potable water.
As for the lack of medical services, the activists added that there is not a single specialist doctor in the Deir Balout camp, to provide the necessary treatment. Two voluntary nurses supervise the treatment process in a tent that stands hopeless of providing services, due to lack of proper medical diagnosis and lack of medication.
The activists noted that the nearest medical point or hospital is no less than 5 km away from the camp, with no means of transportation such as ambulances or free transport. This is expensive for the dozens of forcibly displaced families from south Damascus, which suffer from difficult humanitarian conditions in hastily prepared camps.
The refugees called on UNRWA to assume immediate responsibility towards them, since the Agency refuses to provide any services to the displaced Palestinian refugees in the north of the country. They also appealed to the Turkish Red Crescent to provide urgent health care to the patients in the camp.
