The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Deir Ezzor | Deteriorating health care, lack of services continue in east Deir Ezzor

SOHR activists have reported the deteriorating health situation east Deir Ezzor countryside, which host thousands of population and only five health centers with very poor medical staff helping patients who avoided expensive medical treatment in private hospitals or buying medicine from pharmacies.

These health centers lack specialized doctors and sufficient medicine, except for antipyretics and other low-cost medicines compared with the medicines needed for chronic diseases, including heart illnesses.

In the health center of al-Baghouz town in Deir Ezzor, ISIS ‘last stronghold, the health situation has been deteriorating due to lack of medical staff. There are four villages administratively runs under Al-Baghouz town: Huwaiga al-Mushahda, al-Safafa, Muzan and Baghouz Tahtany which host nearly 30,000 people, but the center lacks any kind of medication, and no doctors or hospitals nearby are available, in addition to the low capabilities of the health center, since last July.

Civilians suffer from lack of medical services in their regions, where the closest hospital is located tens of kilometers away from the town, while residents face difficulties going at late hours in the night when it is an emergency case or delivery.

The health centers also lack dialysis devices and medication of leishmaniasis despite its widespread among residents, in addition to the inability of these centers to provide insulin for diabetic patients.

Residents in Deir Ezzur countryside in a sit-in demanded to improve the health conditions in the region, while the “Autonomous Administration” rehabilitated the Hajin Public Hospital and Abu Hamam Public Hospital in the eastern region, with financial aid from the US State Department, but they were not prepared with advanced medical machines or qualified stuffs. This carelessness and corruption come in light of the outbreak of COVID-19 virus, and discovery of cases infected with the black fungus disease in northern and northeastern Syrian regions.