A place of refuge for Syria’s disabled

Syrians, caught in the crossfire of a civil war, receive treatment to overcome paralysis at a recovery center in Turkey.

Jan. 10, 2013 

Khaled Ibrahim stands in front of a Turkish flag at the recovery center for Syrians in Reyhanli, Turkey. Khaled was injured when the Syrian army shelled his home town in Idlib province.

Bradley Secker / For The Washington Post

Jan. 10, 2013  

Khaled climbs the stairs in what used to be a dorm for female students.

Bradley Secker / For The Washington Post

Jan. 10, 2013  

A young man arrives at the recovery center. About 85 patients are being treated at the center, including those brought from Syria directly and from Turkish state hospitals.

Bradley Secker / For The Washington Post

Recovery center in Turkey sees growing number of paralyzed Syrians

By Jenna Johnson, Published: January 15

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/growing-number-of-paralyzed-syrians-overwhelms-a-recovery-center/2013/01/15/3d2bc692-5b63-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html 

Khaled Ibrahim stands in front of a Turkish flag at the recovery center for Syrians in Reyhanli, Turkey. Khaled was injured when the Syrian army shelled his home town in Idlib province.

Bradley Secker / For The Washington Post

 

REYHANLI, Turkey — Most of the injured Syrians who check into the volunteer-run recovery center here stay only a few weeks, maybe a month. As soon as they regain strength and mobility, they find temporary housing in Turkey or return home to fight against the Syrian regime. A line of new patients waits to take their place.

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تقرير عن مركز المعالجة الفيزيائية في حمص

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source: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/bilder-dokumentieren-das-toeten-und-sterben-in-syrien-a-867067.html

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

Monday, 12 November 2012 13:49 Dr. Shahrazad Junde

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

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."