“Abu Kubai’a” camp in Raqqa: displaced persons from Idlib and Aleppo suffer catastrophic conditions with shortage of medical equipment and midicines

“Abu Kubai’a” camp is home to some 200 families from rural Aleppo and Idlib, who have been fled their areas after the fighting in the area had intensified.

Al-Raqqa civil council works through the Social Affairs and Labor Committee and the Health Committee to secure the displaced families needs as much as possible, such as fuel, tents and food aid, and to improve the services and provide electricity to the camp.

Health committee is also conducting a regular checks for the camp’s residents, as well as setting up a medical point that serves only displaced persons.

On the other hand, the camp administration has implemented the quarantine procedures to tackle the spread of the novel Coronavirus pandemic. Medical staff are carrying out awareness-raising campaigns on preventing causative factors of the pandemic while the civil council has disinfected and sterilized all sectors of the camp.

According to medical sources in the camp, weekly reports are being sent to Early Warning organization in Raqqa and the health committee in case of an emergency. No suspected or confirmed coronavirus cases have been reported among the families living in the camp.

“Abu Kubai’a” camp lacks further support at both livelihood and medical levels, including medical equipment, an ambulance, medications for heart patients, diabetes and permanent emergency equipment.