(Zaman Al Wasl)- The mobile clinics campaign started two weeks ago on the Turkish Syrian border as part of an initiative of the organization Tulip for Syria Relief in the city of Reyhanli. The campaign targets Syrian refugees living in villages far from areas with health clinics and it offers part of the medical services they need through weekly rounds that the Tulip team undertake under the supervision of a specialized doctor.
Fahed Mohammad al-Khalawi, the campaign’s doctor indicated to Zaman al-Wasl that “the program is supervised by a volunteer medical team and it covers all the villages and camps in the Turkish-Syrian border area, including the village of Tayzin, and many of the camps that are on the road to Bab al-Hawa, thus all the human settlements that are not covered medically.”
The campaign program includes studies of the most important medical cases and their treatment from the volunteer medical team especially children’s illnesses, internal illnesses, diabetes, blood pressure, skin conditions, and patients are given the available medicine following the diagnosis, as our speaker confirmed.
Fahed al-Khalawi who worked for 4 years as a volunteer doctor in the Syrian Red Crescent in Homs highlighted that, “most of the common illnesses noticed by the campaign team include anemia, bronchitis, tonsillitis, and malnutrition due to the deteriorating humanitarian situation the refugees are experiencing, the unhealthy living conditions people living in camps experience and the high population living inside the camp.” Our speaker indicated that, “the campaign team noticed cases of lice, scabies, and chickenpox.”
According to al-Khalawi, the mobile clinic faces many difficulties and obstacles, amongst them a lack of the necessary equipment for basic examination. He indicated that he is having to provide the equipment personally. They also face the lack of equipment to analysis sugar content in blood, and not having a clinic car for the mobile clinic, and a lack of medicine.”
The mobile clinic program was launched two weeks ago, where they have examined and treated around 15 patients and 25 patients received the necessary medical services in the second week.
The clinic’s doctor highlighted that rare medical cases were noticed in Tayzin village for a three-year-old child who was born without a rectum, and she has since undergone an operation to create a rectum in her waist, but as the doctor confirms, she requires an operation to create a prosthetic rectum.
Tulip organization includes a physio-therapy center that has received in its first month since it was opened 17 cases of injury and 96 physio-therapy sessions were offered to injured persons.
(Wrtiting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Rana Abdul)
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