(Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistics showed that Bashar al-Assad's war on Syrian people has caused permanent disability for about 300 thousand Syrians, half of them children under 16 years old.
Samira Yousuf, 4-year-old girl from Taldo, the biggest town in al Hola city in the northwestern countryside of Homs, keeps crying since her leg was amputated as a result of the regime’s forces shelling on her city.
Samira’s father said to Zaman Al Wasl that she lost her left leg two and a half years ago, as a result of shrapnel from an artillery shell fired from a barrier in Qarmas village, since then she suffers of continuous nightmares, and attacks of fears and terror.
He added that his another girl suffered of multiple wounds and fracture of her spine.
The father painfully explained that he had many time sought help to have a prostheses fixed to his daughter, but all his attempts were unsuccessful, as he needed to go to Turkey and needs lot of money which he has not got any pence of it, and found no charity organization or donor to cover the cost.
The father explained that all support he received because of his daughters’ injuries was 4000 Syrian pounds from "Othman bin Affan Charity society and that amount of money does not the price of medicine, painkillers and disinfectants for Samira and her sister. He mentioned that he unemployed and has no other source of income because of severe siege imposed by the regime on his area for 4 years.
In same context, people who have relatives with disabilities in al Hola city, complained of the neglect of the revolution bodies. They demanded those bodies and the interim Ministry of Health to provide health care for those disabled and to fund the process of fixing prostheses for people in need who count 200 patients.
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