North Syria- Maryam Al -Saeed did not help her heavy tired steps, looking for a center for kidney washing that receives her mother, who is struggling to survive, appealing to all medical organizations and the Syrian Ministry of Health to provide solutions to hundreds of patients waiting for death. Mary had lost Her father for the same reason years ago.
The administrative director of the Ibn Sina Center, Dr. Taha Tahda, told Al -Jazeera Net that the large numbers produced by the reverse migration movement from inside and outside Syria, such as (Turkey, Lebanon and the Gulf), negatively affected the increase in the numbers that need kidney washing sessions.
He added that the Ibn Sina Center is the largest center in the region Idlib It provides his services to 250 patients who were scheduled for last May at a rate of 2500 sessions per month, and he cannot receive more than that because patients need washing three times per week.
Patient patterns
The specialist pointed out that patients are divided into three patterns:
- Permanent patients, and these have a secure washing sessions in the center of Ibn Sina or others.
- Patients relied on securing doses from centers, organizations or personal support provided to them.
- New patients, and they buy their doses on their own account, and the value of the session cost is approximately $ 20.
He pointed out that the greatest pressure is one of the newly liberated areas from the previous regime, and witnessed the return of the people to it and they were in areas outside Syria, or in other regions.
Solutions
It was one that the proposed solutions that must be worked out at a maximum, according to him, are:
- Opening of kidney washing centers in the areas to which the people have returned, and this reduces the pressure on the centers that are now working, because of the presence of centers that stop support, which caused more pressure.
- Increasing support for the centers operating at the present time to make a larger work card by increasing the necessary devices and materials for washing.
The same spokesman stressed that patients with kidney washing with kidney failure are the fate of death, if the doses and centers in which they wash do not secure them, and if they do not have washing operations on their specified time.
It is noteworthy that the cost of the washing process for patients who conduct it on their own account reaches $ 40 per session.
Support
Fadwa Mishmantel, to Al -Jazeera Net, says that she is traveling 60 kilometers to reach Jabal Al Zawiya to a city IdlibTo get the kidney wash three times during one week.
With information about drying support on kidney wash centers, the danger has become threatening her life, and she cannot secure the price of one dose, due to the poverty and displacement in which she lived for eight years before the liberation of Syria from the previous regime.
Fadwa indicated that the Jabal Al -Zawiya area, which includes more than fifty villages and town, has no center for kidney washing, which increases the hardship of tired patients after the washing operation.
Sahar Abu Hajar comes to the city center of Idlib from the city Ma`rat al -NumanTo be wash the kidneys twice a week, and most of the long travel that increases the deterioration of its health condition, in addition to the threat to stop the support, which will cause the washing process to stop the lack of financial ability, according to her interview with Al -Jazeera Net.
She appealed to the magic of international medical organizations, local associations and the Syrian government to open the centers of kidney washing in the city of Maarat al -Numan, whose residents began to return to.
In turn, Jihad Al -Asfar, who is coming from the city of Maarat al -Numan, also stressed the necessity of opening centers of kidney washing in the southern and eastern regions of Idlib because of the large number of patients in that region, who suffer from travel costs and physical hardship in order to reach the city center to carry out the washing process.
He added, warning, in an interview with Al -Jazeera Net, of the support of some centers, which will cause a health catastrophe for patients who do not find vacant washing.
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Increased pressure
The director of health construction in Idlib Governorate, Dr. Ibrahim Al -Ways, tells Al -Jazeera Net that the medical sector is witnessing the suspension of a number of medical facilities due to the suspension of support, on top of which are hospitals, which stopped more than 20 hospitals, 18 hospitals that were stopped by all parts and two partially.
He added that the percentage of expatriates on hospitals and medical centers increased after liberation to 25% due to the reverse migration to the region from inside or outside Syria, and this is a reason for an increase in pressure on health facilities that were dried up on support before the liberation.
He pointed out that one of the most important centers affected by the cutting of support is the centers of kidney washing.
He pointed out that there are 14 kidney washing centers threatening to stop the support during the next short period, and he said that part of these centers costs the patient to bring supplies to washing on his own account, which is very expensive and especially for the population in this region that lived the war for 14 years, and lived in the displacement and displacement camps.
He pointed out that after the liberation, the Health Directorate directed the centers to work with maximum energy and increase shifts in washing operations, but the increase in these shifts did not absorb all numbers of patients, in addition to the fact that the necessary consumers in the washing sessions are not sufficient.
The same official pointed out that the greatest dependence, at the present time, on international and local medical organizations to support this sector, because the government’s capabilities are almost non -existent after the war years and the devastating heritage in the health sector that the previous regime left behind.