Reporting by Mohamed Hussein
(Zaman Al Wasl) Public and private hospitals in al-Hasakah city face severe problems pushing some of them to stop receiving patients after they have been bombed, robbed, or received a number of injured that exceeds its capacity during the confrontations between the regime forces and the armed members of the Democratic Union Party in the city’s neighborhoods.
Local sources mentioned that al-Hasakah National Hospital is now out of service and cannot receive any patients or injured due to the theft of hospital equipment and supplies by armed groups belonging to the Democratic Union Party in addition to the absence of medical and nursing staff due to the hospital’s location in the Party controlled al-Aziziyet neighborhood where the Party launched an arrest campaign of the heads of government branch heads and institutional employees living in the areas under its control.
Shebo, al-Hikmet, and al-Hayat hospitals are also out of service due to damages sustained as a result of the battle or due to the absence of medical and nursing staff from the hospital as some of them work in field hospitals belonging to one or another party in the conflict whereas others are not showing up for work due to the confrontation according to the local sources.
The activist Mahmoud al-Ahmad said that most of the cases of injury are sent to hospitals in al-Qamishli for treatment after the start of the execution of the agreement of ceasefire between the regime and the party. The clauses dictate that the security forces and police remain only in the city, prisoners are exchanged in batches, residents are allowed to return to their homes, the regime controls the road linking its areas with the military regiments belonging to it in al-Hasakah’s countryside, and the al-Hasakah al-Qamishli road it opened facilitating the movement of civilians.
The activist confirmed that the thefts have extended to all institutions the most prominent being the laboratories of the college of civil engineering, the national hospital where it equipment, medicines and accessories where stolen by armed members of the Democratic Union Party and moved to the Party’s hospital which made the entire city face a humanitarian crisis after the divisions of premature infants, dialysis, and critical care stopped functioning which forced patients to go to the national hospital in al-Qamishli to discover the hospital manager has started selling the necessary medical equipment and medicine needed for dialysis.
The activist indicated that al-Qamishli hospital does not provide medication for patients who try to buy it from pharmacies which in turn may lack these medicines due to the regime enforced ban on medication reaching areas under Kurdish party control after the clashes last April in al-Qamishli which led to the increase in the price of medication 5 to 10 times more. Medicines every by the tons by air every while to be sold on the black market.
From his side, the activist Malath al-Yusef said, “yesterday I was in the national hospital in al-Qamishli and I examined the crisis there with my own eyes, the situation is tragic as my parents are dialysis patients and they are confused about what to do, their sons are between life and death, and they do not know what they are doing, there is no dialysis except in the national hospital in al-Qamishli now and the hospital manager stole the dialysis material and sold it.”
Al-Yusef clarified that dialysis patients who washed their kidneys out once must continue to do so for the rest of their lives, and the duration between dialysis appointments becomes closer, and there are children, women and young men among those patients, other than those patients among the displaced persons from other areas living in al-Hasakah.
He indicated that there are no reservations in al-Qamishli airport for patients to travel by air to Damascus, so there is no solution before them except to go to northern Iraq or Turkey as they are the closest areas for people there, but the border is closed as well, and the problem in reality is very serious.
National Ras al-Ayn Hospital is the biggest in the province, but lost most of equipment since 2013 and even after its restoration in June last year, it does not allow staff to do their work normally. The outside clinics were exploited by the PYD as their own hospital and called it “Roj”. It has two civil sections in the clinics and a military one in the woman section in the national hospital. The big equipment was transferred to the PYD hospitals and especially Khabat hospital in Qamishli including the RMI and kidney equipment. The furniture of hospital was distributed among the PYD offices and self-administration, according to a medical source.
The source, spoke on condition of anonymity, said in a phone call with Zaman al-Wasl that the PYD leadership said to the hospital staff, 250 employees, in public, “you can open Ras al-Ayn Hospital, but they sent us threats in private if we open the hospital. They do not want the hospital to compete with Roj, which occupies parts of the national hospital and does not treat people for free.” PYD seizes medication shipment with weapons, the source added.
He pointed out that hospital director Doctor Juan Mustafa, the political official of PYD in Ras al-Ayn, in addition to Mohamed Khalaf, the former director of the national hospital are the ones who benefit the most with their partners from stopping the work of the national hospital since they are investing in Roj which runs by mostly Kurdish staff.
The source confirmed that part of the national hospital staff lost their jobs and some were sacked by Health Directory in Hasakah because it counts the hospital out of service. So, the staff had to carry weapons and join Self-Defense militias subordinate to regime forces although backed up by UN.
He added, women’s division in National al-Malkiye hospital backed by MSF takes currently half the cost although it should offer service for free. Based on this, MSF restored the operation room and supports it since a year and 10 months.
Red Crescent organization had said in June last year that water and sanitation team in cooperation with International Committee of Red Crescent ICRC finished restoring emergency sections and main operation rooms and water and sanitation networks and extended direct water line to the hospital from the main water station in Hasaka city. They also offered necessary medical equipment to Ras al-Ayn hospital.
(Zaman Al Wasl) Public and private hospitals in al-Hasakah city face severe problems pushing some of them to stop receiving patients after they have been bombed, robbed, or received a number of injured that exceeds its capacity during the confrontations between the regime forces and the armed members of the Democratic Union Party in the city’s neighborhoods.
Local sources mentioned that al-Hasakah National Hospital is now out of service and cannot receive any patients or injured due to the theft of hospital equipment and supplies by armed groups belonging to the Democratic Union Party in addition to the absence of medical and nursing staff due to the hospital’s location in the Party controlled al-Aziziyet neighborhood where the Party launched an arrest campaign of the heads of government branch heads and institutional employees living in the areas under its control.
Shebo, al-Hikmet, and al-Hayat hospitals are also out of service due to damages sustained as a result of the battle or due to the absence of medical and nursing staff from the hospital as some of them work in field hospitals belonging to one or another party in the conflict whereas others are not showing up for work due to the confrontation according to the local sources.
The activist Mahmoud al-Ahmad said that most of the cases of injury are sent to hospitals in al-Qamishli for treatment after the start of the execution of the agreement of ceasefire between the regime and the party. The clauses dictate that the security forces and police remain only in the city, prisoners are exchanged in batches, residents are allowed to return to their homes, the regime controls the road linking its areas with the military regiments belonging to it in al-Hasakah’s countryside, and the al-Hasakah al-Qamishli road it opened facilitating the movement of civilians.
The activist confirmed that the thefts have extended to all institutions the most prominent being the laboratories of the college of civil engineering, the national hospital where it equipment, medicines and accessories where stolen by armed members of the Democratic Union Party and moved to the Party’s hospital which made the entire city face a humanitarian crisis after the divisions of premature infants, dialysis, and critical care stopped functioning which forced patients to go to the national hospital in al-Qamishli to discover the hospital manager has started selling the necessary medical equipment and medicine needed for dialysis.
The activist indicated that al-Qamishli hospital does not provide medication for patients who try to buy it from pharmacies which in turn may lack these medicines due to the regime enforced ban on medication reaching areas under Kurdish party control after the clashes last April in al-Qamishli which led to the increase in the price of medication 5 to 10 times more. Medicines every by the tons by air every while to be sold on the black market.
From his side, the activist Malath al-Yusef said, “yesterday I was in the national hospital in al-Qamishli and I examined the crisis there with my own eyes, the situation is tragic as my parents are dialysis patients and they are confused about what to do, their sons are between life and death, and they do not know what they are doing, there is no dialysis except in the national hospital in al-Qamishli now and the hospital manager stole the dialysis material and sold it.”
Al-Yusef clarified that dialysis patients who washed their kidneys out once must continue to do so for the rest of their lives, and the duration between dialysis appointments becomes closer, and there are children, women and young men among those patients, other than those patients among the displaced persons from other areas living in al-Hasakah.
He indicated that there are no reservations in al-Qamishli airport for patients to travel by air to Damascus, so there is no solution before them except to go to northern Iraq or Turkey as they are the closest areas for people there, but the border is closed as well, and the problem in reality is very serious.
National Ras al-Ayn Hospital is the biggest in the province, but lost most of equipment since 2013 and even after its restoration in June last year, it does not allow staff to do their work normally. The outside clinics were exploited by the PYD as their own hospital and called it “Roj”. It has two civil sections in the clinics and a military one in the woman section in the national hospital. The big equipment was transferred to the PYD hospitals and especially Khabat hospital in Qamishli including the RMI and kidney equipment. The furniture of hospital was distributed among the PYD offices and self-administration, according to a medical source.
The source, spoke on condition of anonymity, said in a phone call with Zaman al-Wasl that the PYD leadership said to the hospital staff, 250 employees, in public, “you can open Ras al-Ayn Hospital, but they sent us threats in private if we open the hospital. They do not want the hospital to compete with Roj, which occupies parts of the national hospital and does not treat people for free.” PYD seizes medication shipment with weapons, the source added.
He pointed out that hospital director Doctor Juan Mustafa, the political official of PYD in Ras al-Ayn, in addition to Mohamed Khalaf, the former director of the national hospital are the ones who benefit the most with their partners from stopping the work of the national hospital since they are investing in Roj which runs by mostly Kurdish staff.
The source confirmed that part of the national hospital staff lost their jobs and some were sacked by Health Directory in Hasakah because it counts the hospital out of service. So, the staff had to carry weapons and join Self-Defense militias subordinate to regime forces although backed up by UN.
He added, women’s division in National al-Malkiye hospital backed by MSF takes currently half the cost although it should offer service for free. Based on this, MSF restored the operation room and supports it since a year and 10 months.
Red Crescent organization had said in June last year that water and sanitation team in cooperation with International Committee of Red Crescent ICRC finished restoring emergency sections and main operation rooms and water and sanitation networks and extended direct water line to the hospital from the main water station in Hasaka city. They also offered necessary medical equipment to Ras al-Ayn hospital.
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