The people of the villages (Kalouta – Burj Qas – Al-Zouk Al-Kabeer) in the Sherawa area of Afrin suffer from the continuation of being targeted by shells
As a result of the shelling of Shirawa villages (Kalutah – Burj Al-Kas – Al-Thuq Al-Kabeer) that was commited by the Turkey and the millitias under it’s control, a woman and a child from Kalutah village were injured.
The wounded were immediatly rushed to KRC’s heath point, where they were given first aid, and the wounded were reffered to Afreen hospital due to the child’s critical condition.
Statement to the world public opinion
The earthquake that occurred on February 6, 2023, resulted in a great humanitarian catastrophe and great damages that the people of the region suffer until this moment
Accordingly, the global and regional humanitarian community made a great effort to provide financial and moral assistance to the people affected by this earthquake, and because they find the Kurdish Red Crescent trustworthy, they wanted this aid to reach the stricken areas through it
Unfortunately, without knowing the reasons, we face great obstacles, the latest of which was yesterday (21-2-2023), when our humanitarian aid convoy was denied entry by the Faysh Khabour” crossing and its affiliated authorities”
That is why we must inform the whole world about these obstacles as soon as possible. In the Kurdish Red Crescent, such decisions are unacceptable to us, and we see them as meaningless. It is our fundamental right as a Kurdish Red Crescent to deliver the aid sent by the communities that trust us to the required place.
Therefore, we urgently hope that those parties that put these obstacles will reverse these decisions and open all humanitarian ways and doors for assistance
Kurdish Red Crescent
22-2-2023
For the attention of all competent bodies and humanitarian agencies
On the morning of 6 February 2023, consecutive earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 struck both Turkey and Syria, with majority-Kurdish regions particularly affected. A major humanitarian catastrophe has resulted, with over 25,000 deaths to date and millions displaced.
Many political and civil institutions, organisations and individual actors, from both within and without the affected regions, have taken urgent action to reach the disaster zone. However, despite the arrival of some aid to some locations, many hundreds of thousands of people in Syria alone are still homeless, or trapped under the rubble waiting to be rescued. Many districts are still without food, electricity, shelter or other fundamental necessities to ensure their survival.
Unfortunately, many parties to the Syrian conflict have put political calculations before their humanitarian and moral imperatives. In many places, these actors have become an obstacle to the delivery of humanitarian aid.
As the Kurdish Red Crescent, since the beginning of the disaster, we have declared our readiness to reach and help the afflicted regardless of location, and respond to their needs to the utmost of our abilities. Many obstacles prevented us from reaching the regions of Afrin and Jinderes. The same is true now as regards out attempted delivery of aid to Aleppo, Sheikh Maqsoud and al-Shahba, where the Syrian regime is placing significant obstacles before us.
Following ten years of war, 90% of buildings in Aleppo are unsafe and no longer suitable for people to live in. Following the earthquake, the danger has reached such a level that no-one is able to live in these houses any longer. Tens of thousands of people are currently living outside in freezing temperatures without shelter, food, water, and heating. If they are not reached as soon as possible, a humanitarian catastrophe worse than the earthquake itself will inevitably ensue.
As such, the Kurdish Red Crescent is issuing an urgent appeal to all humanitarian agencies on the basis of our shared democratic and humanitarian values. We ask them to urgently intervene and open secure, internationally-guaranteed humanitarian corridors into the affected regions to enable us to deliver all necessary assistance to these populations in such desperate need.
11/02/2023
Kurdish Red Crescent
Lachmaniac and its treatment in Kurdish Red Crescent centers
The medical point in Washokani is still providing treatment for patients of Leishmania, knowing that the number has increased since the last August to be more than 1041 patients and about 8328 visitors receiving the doses by the end of January.
Leishmania is a parasitic disease spread by the bite of tiny infected sand flies. It is one of the most popular skin pdiseases in the world, infecting people from different ages.
This fly attacks the skin causing festering wounds last for long time. However, the injury begins to appear, several weeks after the sting, in the form of red blisters small or large with ulcers on them. The secretions of these ulcers settle on the surface and get dry, then they enlarge gradually, especially when the immunity is weak.
There are many factors of spreading this disease; one of them is the dry water marshes in NES that cause infection of thousands of patients every year. Those patients visit KRC primary health care points, as they get treatment with muscular or local vaccine after a recommendation from the doctor; they get treatment from KRC till they fully recover.
Manbij- a Living Example for primary Health Care
Primary health care/PHC/ services target the needs of individuals, families and communities containing health and well-being in their comprehensive and interrelated physical, psychological and social aspects. It provides lifelong health care to the person as a whole, not limited to some specific diseases.
The /PHC/ guarantees getting comprehensive health care access for all people starting from counseling, prevention, treating, rehabilitation and palliative care. Currently, it plays the crucial role in managing the main reasons and risks for the bad health and well-being, including the new obstacles that could get them worse in the future. In addition to decreasing the cases that need hospitals and achieving the sustainable development aims concerning health and comprehensive health coverage.
To meet people needs and starting from the main health aspects, KRC dedicated a large portion of its services to provide PHC through 45 medical points distributed in cities, camps, hospitals, and mobile clinics in all NES. However, there are many departments (health educating, internal clinic- pediatrician- gynecology- Obstetrics- Leishmania-Labs- primary psychological clinic or psychological support- emergency)
Manbij center is a good example of providing primary health care to the locals and its countryside for more than three years. Ms. Malik Qassem, team leader, summarized the outcome of this center.
- Tracking epidemics-Corona virus- through triage chamber (this room recognizes the infected people before disease worsens, then they are directed to get the appropriate treatments)
- Tracking social issues (poverty that leads to malnutrition) through conducting visits to the center beneficiaries
- Following up chronic diseases
- Tracking environmental issues which may lead to mass medical cases such as diarrhea caused by water pollution.
In developed countries, such centers usually provide health-care service, but because of the current exceptional circumstances, our centers are providing wider health care, which burdened us with more tasks.