20 deaths a month in Urology section in Raqqa National Hospital

68 deaths in Urology section within 3 months, in the national hospital in al-Raqqa, among them a child and 13 women, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Those deaths resulted from breaking down of 15 medical instruments and machin related to renal function and dialysis, and lack of maintenance of these instruments and not offering for fixing them. The shortage in number of functioning instrument forced medical stuff to limit dialysis sessions to 3 settings and reducing time for each setting, to cover as much cases as possible.

The network pointed to the National hospital in al-Raqqa to be the most important hospital, and it was striked by the Syrian regime air forces twice, resulted in damaging the 12-bedded ICU .

Siege affected the hospital like other areas and services.

There is 6 public medical centres: “Gynecology and Labour, Outpatient clinics, Thalasimia and Tuberculosis centre” besides the national hospital. However they are all work at their minimal capacity because of lack of resources, stuff and medicine, besides frequent fighting and shelling. Translation by Yusra Ahmed