Syrian children and emergency cases allowed to receive treatment in Turkish hospitals only after praise and commendation

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored civil activists staging a vigil in Azaz city in northern Aleppo over the death of a little displaced girl due to the poor healthcare in refugee camps, as well as the Turkish authorities’ rejection to allow her to receive treatment in Turkish hospitals.

 

SOHR activists have previously documented the entry of similar cases to Turkey after direct mediations by Turkish officials and organizations affiliated to the civil community, which sought for trading in humanitarian cases by promoting such cases on media via activists inside Syria. Accordingly, praise and commendation which improve the image of specific Turkish figures and humanitarian organizations become the price for allowing children and emergency cases to access to Turkey where they could receive treatment in hospitals there.

 

It is worth noting that the there are hundreds of people in north-western Syria have serious diseases, scores of whom have died before these “exploiters” invested their sufferings.

 

In early September 2020, the child Mohammed Musaytef was allowed to enter Turkey, at direct order by the Turkish minister of the interior Suleyman Soylu, where the child was fitted with artificial limbs in a hospital in Ankara.

 

While on December 14, the girl Salsabil Qaddour was allowed to enter Turkey to receive treatment following widespread appeals by activists on social media. The case of the girl was serious as she suffered from an esophageal perforation.

 

Similarly, on December 23, the Turkish authorities allowed the child Saif Al-Din to enter Turkey, after Turkish hospitals refused him several times, despite his sever case.