The besieged Eastern Ghouta witnesses the evacuation of 5 medical conditions out of more than 720 medical condition that need immediate treatment and the Syrian observatory repeats its call to help the medical conditions and besieged people

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the Red Crescent getting out medical conditions from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus. In the details obtained by the SOHR, the Red Crescent cars entered from the refugee camps of Al-Wafdeen, and evacuated 5 medical conditions from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, which is considered the first batch of people getting out to receive treatment in hospitals outside the besieged Eastern Ghouta, where it is expected to get about 25 others out in the upcoming days on different batches.

The evacuation of medical conditions came 24 hours after the SOHR called and repeated today to evacuate more than 720 medical condition including 500 people suffering from cancer, who are suffering unbearable pains, amid the absence of necessary treatment and medicines, as well as the medical centers and hospitals are helpless before their pain.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights made a statistic about the details in the humanitarian and medical situation in the Eastern Ghouta, in which the SOHR counted, through its activists, and with the help of medical sources in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, more than 720 medical cases including tens of children and citizen women, who need immediate evacuation, the evacuation which is ignored every time by the vehicles of the Red Crescent and the UN delegations accompany the humanitarian aid that enters the Eastern Ghouta, and leave without paying any attention as if they accomplished their mission perfectly, which provoked the patients and their families, who mocked at the aid transporters and supervisors saying that “they think they accomplished their mission and flood us with charities that are not enough for the inhabitants of one town of Al-Ghouta which suffers daily from starving”, and this talk of the patients and their family was confided by them through complaints to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and citizens continue their complaints saying “there are families have only one meal daily, which hardly satisfies their hunger amid the high prices caused by the warlords and sellers of goods who assigned imaginary prices in return for entering the food stuffs through the regime’s checkpoints widespread at the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, Do not they observe our heartache for our children and our families?!!, or they have not been struck yet by hunger and disease makes them weep upon their children?!!”

The medical sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the diseases are varied, in terms of their nature, level of progress, extent of distribution and the difficulty of being treated, as there are more than 500 patients have cancer, including more than 100 cases need immediate evacuation, due to the great drop of their conditions, also there are 59 cases, of who are believed to have cancer, are added to the 500 cases, in which the specialists of the center specialized in diagnosing and treating cancer in the Eastern Ghouta, failed to specify and diagnose their cases, due to the lack of necessary materials, and the stop of the laboratory for the same reasons, and there are more than 30 patients have the infecting tuberculosis, as well as the presence of about 25 cases of the kidney failure, and about 70 cases with varying diseases such as diabetes mellitus, immunodeficiency, thalassemia, and other diseases.

The Syrian Observatory reiterates its condemnation to the international silence towards the hungry Eastern Ghouta and its suffering. We in the Syrian observatory for human rights and the international parties to save those who are about to die, who are more than 720 sick and injured people, whose voices are not heard while they are seeking for treatment, and those who their sufferings are not felt. We demand the parties to seriously work to stop their pains and the bloodshed through having dramatic change in the issue of besieging the Eastern Ghouta and the rest of the besieged areas, through fully ending the siege, and allowing civilians to move, and the entry of food, and not placing the civilians and their fate and sickness in the military conflict between the military parties of the regime and the oppositions. We demand in the Syrian Observatory the international parties to secure their immediate transfer of injured and getting them out to receive treatment in hospital outside the Eastern Ghouta and following up their cases.