(Zaman al-Wasl) Samira Abdel Karim Karzon a Syrian refugee from the countryside of al-Qasir living in Lebanon’s camps dreamed of planting a tree or making a friend or sister in every country she visits. Samira who suffers from severe kidney dysfunction started her youth with an artificial kidney transplant, the transplant accompanied her to the camp in Lebanon where Syrians rule Syrians with no strangers among them except the devil and poverty who considers his life for decision makers, those issuing orders, and negating from his “Super Syrian” brothers an appearance! An appearance of luxury, non-essentials, excessive comfort and for which they must pay a tax without hesitation, a tax that is not impossible, it is death nothing less as Samira says.
Journey to seek the Water of Immortality
Samira forgot that she had not mat when she spread her feet out in front of her, and why not, and she lives with those fearing a cold because they do not own the price of a medicine. So then how can she poor and unable to cover the costs of the illness that lives inside her, which doctors consider big for someone poor to reach this degree of luxury in their illness, and aristocratic as she touched and felt with those she visited from hospitals and medical committees in Arsal seeking two boxes of medication to preserve her body’s immunity against the invader that settles within her despite her poverty, desperation, sadness, and the fatigue of her plastic kidneys to be splat by the response, “your medication is more than our ability” or as if she heard someone mocking her “stretch your legs the length of your mat.”
Everyday Samira visits a new hospital as if visiting a shrine, she moves around the structure, begs them, calls on them, but no one answers such as expensive claim whose medication may reach the price of 250$ per month.
Panadol Doctors and Aspirin Committees announce their Bankruptcy
Despite the presence of over 20 medical groups in Arsal, except the same prescription is offered by all, a packet of Panadol or a packet of Aspirin, according to Samira.
Illness of the killer kind are ignored and no attention paid to the sufferer and their pains as if the angels of medicine and Goliath of equipment have set for refugees the ceiling of allowed illness in Lebanon. In the event, they exceed that ceiling as Samira dared to then they must retract their steps, gather their disappointment and despair moving away from the data of bankruptcy falling on his head from Hippocrates’s unlawful heirs.
For reasons relating to Samira’s safety and her life, Zaman al-Wasl refrains from mentioning the hospitals, associations, or doctors in Arsal although Samira says her life has ended as all avenues for her to get her medication have been closed before her. This has prompted her to take spoiled immunity pills to lessen her extreme pain. For two weeks or more Samira has been taking medication which may cause her death. A death which announced when told by one of the doctors as she begged him to provide her with her medicine when he responded that Panadol and antibiotics are more important than your medication, justifying his medical theory that 250 $ can buy tons of Panadol and antibiotics so why should he spend that money on only two boxes of medication?
Samira is not the only person who suffers from the pains of kidney transplant and its expensive subsequent costs as she says there are 4 other similar cases among the refugees in Arsal. These patients share her daily visits and roamings around hospitals and committees efficient at directing all those who come for support and assistance to Panadol and antibiotics. These other 4 patients share her pain and disappointment in these pill doctors who make this higher humanitarian profession a craft practiced by the rules of loss and gain where its least concern is the loss of human life.
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