Absence of baby formula | Infant dies in Al-Rukban (forgotten) camp during the siege

The three months old child known as “Abd Al-Karim Khidr” from Palmyra city died in Al-Rukban (forgotten) camp in the Syrian desert yesterday, due to the poor health care in the camp, and the absence of baby formula.

According to local sources, the child was fed water and sugar instead of milk, due to the absence of baby formula in Al-Rukban camp, causing severe complications in the baby’s health that led to his death.

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

On December 23, SOHR activists 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.