Rana Abdul
(Zaman al-Wasl) The Health Directorate in Latakia announced that over 10 people have the Guillain-Barre syndrome in the city of Latakia, and the medical sources suggest they were infected while inside hospitals, because of the spread of epidemics in hospitals due to a lack of attention and education about cleanliness.
The syndrome is known to target the immune and nervous systems, and it spreads rapidly in the entire body causing complete paralysis in a short time.
Regarding how the syndrome can be caught, nervous system doctor Yasser Sikariyet clarifies that the International Center for Research’s studies show that the majority of cases occur inside hospitals during surgery or prolonged stays to receive care.
Sikariyet adds, “the lack of cleanliness or a lack of care to repeatedly sterilize the hospital are the main cause for the transfer of the illness, except that the syndrome is not a contagion which makes it far from becoming an epidemic.”
He highlighted that there are other reasons for catching the illness such as pollution in the water, the spread of aerial germs of a particular kind that targets the respiratory and digestive system and causes advanced illness in them.
He mentions that the hospitals in Latakia city are suffering due to filth and lack of attention to the necessary sterilization. The head of one of the government offices in the Health Directorate confirmed that this is due to the large pressure on these hospitals because of the increasing number of injured persons coming in everyday from the battles in Latakia and Aleppo’s countryside, and the lack of time for the administrative and technical team to pay attention to cleanliness and sterilization.
The brother of one of the patients, who asked for his name not to be mentioned, said to Zaman al-Wasl, “my brother entered al-Assad hospital following a routine asthma attack and when he was given the standard inhaler he complained of a weakness in his body and a tremble in his extremities’.”
He added, “we spent two weeks in the hospital and the medical staff were unable to know what was wrong, and then we called upon an Italian doctor who was participating in a medical conference in Tishreen University who told us my brother has Guillain-Barre syndrome and that he needs six months of treatment to walk on his feet again if he does not suffer a relapse that would finish him.”
It must be mentioned that health services in Latakia city are witnessing a state of deterioration expressed through pro-regime pages and media networks, and has caused many deaths as a result of negligence and chaos which pushes regime supporters to question those overseeing the hospital and the Latakia Health Directorate and question them.
(Zaman al-Wasl) The Health Directorate in Latakia announced that over 10 people have the Guillain-Barre syndrome in the city of Latakia, and the medical sources suggest they were infected while inside hospitals, because of the spread of epidemics in hospitals due to a lack of attention and education about cleanliness.
The syndrome is known to target the immune and nervous systems, and it spreads rapidly in the entire body causing complete paralysis in a short time.
Regarding how the syndrome can be caught, nervous system doctor Yasser Sikariyet clarifies that the International Center for Research’s studies show that the majority of cases occur inside hospitals during surgery or prolonged stays to receive care.
Sikariyet adds, “the lack of cleanliness or a lack of care to repeatedly sterilize the hospital are the main cause for the transfer of the illness, except that the syndrome is not a contagion which makes it far from becoming an epidemic.”
He highlighted that there are other reasons for catching the illness such as pollution in the water, the spread of aerial germs of a particular kind that targets the respiratory and digestive system and causes advanced illness in them.
He mentions that the hospitals in Latakia city are suffering due to filth and lack of attention to the necessary sterilization. The head of one of the government offices in the Health Directorate confirmed that this is due to the large pressure on these hospitals because of the increasing number of injured persons coming in everyday from the battles in Latakia and Aleppo’s countryside, and the lack of time for the administrative and technical team to pay attention to cleanliness and sterilization.
The brother of one of the patients, who asked for his name not to be mentioned, said to Zaman al-Wasl, “my brother entered al-Assad hospital following a routine asthma attack and when he was given the standard inhaler he complained of a weakness in his body and a tremble in his extremities’.”
He added, “we spent two weeks in the hospital and the medical staff were unable to know what was wrong, and then we called upon an Italian doctor who was participating in a medical conference in Tishreen University who told us my brother has Guillain-Barre syndrome and that he needs six months of treatment to walk on his feet again if he does not suffer a relapse that would finish him.”
It must be mentioned that health services in Latakia city are witnessing a state of deterioration expressed through pro-regime pages and media networks, and has caused many deaths as a result of negligence and chaos which pushes regime supporters to question those overseeing the hospital and the Latakia Health Directorate and question them.
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