(Reporting by Mamoon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
People in the Wa'er neighborhood in Homs city demanded an urgent help to tackle the hygiene and insect problem they started to suffer from.
Wa'er neighborhood has been under siege for more than a year. Moreover, their suffer increased when the regime had moved the rubbish landfill from Wadi Alnasr to the area next to the neighborhood, which has been perceived as a punishment to people in the area for joining the Syrian revolution since the beginning.
The landfill caused increasing in insects, rats and other rodents, beside the bad smell and fume come from the rubbish, which caused exaggeration of the medical conditions, especially respiratory illnesses for elderly and Asthma.
Activists appealed for the reconciliation committees to take the insects problem in consideration and to prioritize providing pesticides and rodenticides.
Activist Osama al-Homsi explained that life in Waer neighborhood has become intolerable especially with summer time and high Temperature. Moreover, some activists mentioned that dermatological conditions started to appear similar to Leishmaniasis.
Waer neighborhood, one of the first areas of Homs which joined the Syrian revolution, and suffered from severe and long siege, ended in Summer last year with reconciliation agreement conditioned the rebels to leave the area for letting the food and medication enter the neighborhood.
There are more than 200 thousand people live in Waer, many of them displaced people came from other areas of Homs.
People in the Wa'er neighborhood in Homs city demanded an urgent help to tackle the hygiene and insect problem they started to suffer from.
Wa'er neighborhood has been under siege for more than a year. Moreover, their suffer increased when the regime had moved the rubbish landfill from Wadi Alnasr to the area next to the neighborhood, which has been perceived as a punishment to people in the area for joining the Syrian revolution since the beginning.
The landfill caused increasing in insects, rats and other rodents, beside the bad smell and fume come from the rubbish, which caused exaggeration of the medical conditions, especially respiratory illnesses for elderly and Asthma.
Activists appealed for the reconciliation committees to take the insects problem in consideration and to prioritize providing pesticides and rodenticides.
Activist Osama al-Homsi explained that life in Waer neighborhood has become intolerable especially with summer time and high Temperature. Moreover, some activists mentioned that dermatological conditions started to appear similar to Leishmaniasis.
Waer neighborhood, one of the first areas of Homs which joined the Syrian revolution, and suffered from severe and long siege, ended in Summer last year with reconciliation agreement conditioned the rebels to leave the area for letting the food and medication enter the neighborhood.
There are more than 200 thousand people live in Waer, many of them displaced people came from other areas of Homs.
Zaman Al Wasl
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