Lack of medics and medicines | Three-year-old girl di*es of poor health conditions in Al-Rukban camp

SOHR activists have documented the death of a three-year-old girl from Al-Rukban camp, near the 55 kilometre de-confliction zone at the Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle.

 

According to SOHR sources, the girl is called “Ashwaq” and she had been taken to a medical post in Al-Rukban camp, before she was transported to a hospital in regime-controlled areas, because of the lack of medical specialists and acute shortage of medicines, where she died at the hospital this dawn.

 

Medical sources suggested that the girl suffered from meningitis.

 

This comes as a part of the ongoing strict siege imposed on regime forces on the camp, amid disastrous humanitarian situation in the camp.

 

On October 23, SOHR activists reported that a nine-month-old girl called Yaqeen Issa Al-Salama died in Al-Rukban camp, after struggling with illness from birth, and after her family failed to get her out of the camp for treatment. The displaced baby girl “Yaqeen” was born with an opening (a cleft) in the roof of the mouth and a short tongue, suffered difficulty with feeding and swallowing and other health problems and lack of oxygen. That morning, the baby died after being taken on the previous day to clinic as her health worsened.