(Zaman Al Wasl)- Medical sources in the Maternity hospital in al-Waer neighbourhood in Homs revealed that the hospital risks a complete halt for its services due to constant electricity outage for the seventh day and running out of fuel needed to run the electricity generators.
Sources reported to Zaman al-Wasl that if the hospital stopped its services, it would result in killing 35 patients at least daily.
Mohammed Sabsabi, director of the hospital has through Homs city council appealed to the international and Arabic organisations to provide fuel needed for to run the electricity generators after the complete run-out of diesel.
The hospital used to be children and maternity hospital but then it became the only hospital in the area to admit wounded and injured people in al-Waer, the last stronghold of the Syrian resistance in Homs.
Al-Sabsabi mentioned that number of workers in the hospital reached to 121 and it operated without the Syrian government support since 2013. The manager confirmed that hospital provides services to almost 2000 people daily in al-Waer neighbourhood supporte by few bodies including the medical office in the council of liberated Homs.
Al-Sabsabi confirmed that the fuel storage has run-out and the Syrian regime has completely cut-off the electricity after it used to be connected two hours a day. He mentioned that if the hospital stopped working, it would risk lives of patients with renal failure an receive dialysis, premature babies are being treated in cubicles and patients with urgent medical conditions and need urgent operations.
The manager appealed to the international organisation to urgently secure fuel to the hospital, mentioning that the price of one litre of diesel reached in al-Waer, the 3-year-besieged neighbourhood, to $8.
The medical office in the council of Liberated Homs had Tuesday called for an urgent appeal to the Red Cross to pressurise the regime to allow access to provide fuel otherwise, a real humanitarian crisis is going to happen and each patient or wounded would be at risk of death.
Sources reported to Zaman al-Wasl that if the hospital stopped its services, it would result in killing 35 patients at least daily.
Mohammed Sabsabi, director of the hospital has through Homs city council appealed to the international and Arabic organisations to provide fuel needed for to run the electricity generators after the complete run-out of diesel.
The hospital used to be children and maternity hospital but then it became the only hospital in the area to admit wounded and injured people in al-Waer, the last stronghold of the Syrian resistance in Homs.
Al-Sabsabi mentioned that number of workers in the hospital reached to 121 and it operated without the Syrian government support since 2013. The manager confirmed that hospital provides services to almost 2000 people daily in al-Waer neighbourhood supporte by few bodies including the medical office in the council of liberated Homs.
Al-Sabsabi confirmed that the fuel storage has run-out and the Syrian regime has completely cut-off the electricity after it used to be connected two hours a day. He mentioned that if the hospital stopped working, it would risk lives of patients with renal failure an receive dialysis, premature babies are being treated in cubicles and patients with urgent medical conditions and need urgent operations.
The manager appealed to the international organisation to urgently secure fuel to the hospital, mentioning that the price of one litre of diesel reached in al-Waer, the 3-year-besieged neighbourhood, to $8.
The medical office in the council of Liberated Homs had Tuesday called for an urgent appeal to the Red Cross to pressurise the regime to allow access to provide fuel otherwise, a real humanitarian crisis is going to happen and each patient or wounded would be at risk of death.
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