Monday 10 December 2012

The Fight to Save Lives in Syria - Field Hospitals Treat "Horrific and Brutal" Injuries

Monday, 12 November 2012 13:49
Dr. Shahrazad Junde
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Hundreds of civilians across Syria are facing a dire situation.  It doesn't matter whether they have suffered a heart attack or a sniper shot, there is nowhere to access safe medical care.

The result is a new phenomenon of small secret field hospitals cropping up around Syria. These are set up in basements, schools or even in tents, equipped with only the most basic equipment and minimal medical staff.

The field hospitals, known only through a secretive local network, treat anything from gunshot wounds to Caesarean sections. Even though they are severely under-resourced they provide a vital lifeline to the local community.

The War Victims and Persons with Disabilities in Syria

Monday, 12 November 2012 13:05
Dr. Shahrazad Junde
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According to a United Nations spokesman, "Every hour people are being killed, or being maimed and becoming permanently disabled in Syria." So many horrors are occurring that it is impossible to provide an exact number.
When we asked the Medical Health Commission for the Syrian Revolution about the estimated number of either temporary or permanently disabled people resulting from military operations, we received these numbing answers: "We can't tell," or "We don't know."  One of the Doctors  said   “I have seen many  persons lose eyes, hands, feet or arms as a result of war and other random acts of violence, and the families lack the fundamental infrastructure to care for the people--the men, women and children who become disabled." One of the persons with disability has told me, "After I lost my left arm and part of my left leg, questions began haunting me. They were: Who am I now? What can I do now? What future do I now have professionally?  Can I now plan for a family?  Can I now be a wage earner? Can I now be a lover? Can I now be independent? Am I now viewed the same by my family and friends? The 'now I's multiplied with each personal, intellectual, economic, social and physical challenge."

Action Needed to Protect Syrian Women and Girls

Sunday, 26 August 2012 11:54
Dr. Shahrazad Junde

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Findings of the Assessment of Gender-based Violence in Syria include violence against women and girls, rape, kidnapping, killings, exploitation, trafficking, sexual abuse and domestic violence
In March 2012, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) conducted an assessment of gender-based violence experienced by refugee women and girls in Syria who’d fled to safety in northern Jordan. Over a two week period, the IRC spoke with more than 90 refugee women and girls, 23 service providers, and conducted safety audits to identify the types of violence women and girls experienced in Syria. The assessment also examined protection risks they face in Jordan, as well as the availability and accessibility of support.

Sunday 9 December 2012

Field Hospitals in Syria and Tremendous Efforts to Protect the Wounded from Permanent Disability



Translated by  Free Syrian Translators. We Would like to Thank them for the support.


Article in Arabic 


Thursday, 11 October 2012
Dr. Shahrazad Junde

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The recovery room in one of the houses, which hosts the wounded of the revolution, is the final stage of the patient’s movement from the “tayyar [flash] hospital” [1] to the “field hospital” to a “nearby house” to  a “house further away”, and so on …. The idea of ​​the tayyar or the makeshift hospital came at the beginning of the Syrian revolution, where the Syrian Security forces entered some of Daraa’s hospitals and finished off the wounded. Then the revolutionists decided they needed a safe place to treat patients.
 The demonstrators utilized the tayyar or makeshift field hospitals instead of government hospitals or even private hospitals which are under the surveillance of the authorities.  A number of young people in the protesting neighborhoods donated to find appropriate residential houses away from the eyes of the State Security and Shabiha [regime militia] so the wounded can be treated in a safe place and also to avoid arrest.
The tayyar and makeshift field hospitals are still a new experience for Syrians, for getting treatment from bullets that penetrate their bodies after being fired by the state security forces in an attempt to disrupt the dreams of liberty and freedom from the regime of tyranny. A large number of Syrians are turning to people with permanent disabilities by Syrian bullets and the Syrian Army and Shabiha. Nevertheless, a large number of those wounded return to demonstrate without fear or thinking of backing away from the demands of the Syrian people.
This is not confidential information. The Syrian Intelligence or the “responsible authorities” as they are called know all this information which was posted on social networking sites and YouTube pages.

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