Awareness of the importance of breastfeeding is ongoing
Breastfeeding is one of the best investments to save infants lives, especially in improving health, social, and economic development.
As part of the activities of World Breastfeeding Week in August, the health education team at the Kurdish Red Crescent points in camps in northern and eastern Syria continues to provide guidance and awareness-raising tips to mothers during their visits to those points, including awareness about seasonal diseases such as diarrhea, and distributing brochures to them.
Breast milk is considered the ideal food for infants as it is safe, clean, and contains antibodies that help protect against many common childhood diseases.
Breast milk also provides all the energy and nutrients that the baby needs in the first few months of life, continuing to provide up to more than half of the child’s nutritional needs during the second half of the first year, and even a third during the second year of life.
The leishmaniasis pandemic in Tel Temer and its countryside.
The number of leishmaniasis cases in 2022 reached almost 20 thousand cases in Tel Temer and its countryside, and this was caused by the Khabur river being extremely polluted due to the water being cut off by the turkish state, and also because of lack of awareness and knowledge among the local population on how to take protective measures and how to treat the disease.
But thanks to the efforts of the KRC center and the health education team and their house visits that where happening all year long, the pandemic was swiftly and effectively delt with. And last year, KRC made huge efforts to provide medicine and treatment to the patients. However, some patient used herbal alternatives to treat the disease which inevitably made their condition to worsen, and the medical team advices not to use these methods and to come to the leishmaniasis center to recive treatment and medicine if new cases of the disease occured.
With the support of Medico International Switzerland, the Kurdish Red Crescent continues to provide its medical services to the residents in remote villages in the outskirts of Tabqa through mobile clinics.
The services of the KRC continue in remote areas of Tabqa.
Access to remote and rural areas, especially those that have faced many crises, including a lack of medical services due to their distance from city centers, is one of the biggest challenges in providing healthcare.
Since 2016, the Kurdish Red Crescent has been providing services to these areas as part of its priorities and goals. Hundreds of remote villages have been targeted and provided with primary healthcare services, as well as services for women and children, through mobile clinics equipped with ambulances and medical teams. This is done through ongoing programs, and one of the targeted areas is the rural area of Tabqa. The mobile clinic team, currently supported by Medicos International Switzerland, visits several villages that are approximately 65 km away from the city center, continuing to provide the care that the residents in these areas have been lacking.
Primary Health Care in Sherwa
KRC opened a health point in the country side of Shirawa district over 5 years ago, where the paramedic team, and the ambulance provide first aid for 6 villages (Bujr Qas – Al-Thoq Al-Kabeer – Kalotah – Maiasah – Zarni’itah – Bashimra), and the services cover almost (4900) inhabitants, and these services are being provided while there aren’t any emergency and healthcare cernters in the area.
The Kurdish Red Crescent continues its services in the villages of al-Shahba
KRC opened a health point in the country side of Shirawa district over 5 years ago, where the paramedic team, and the ambulance provide first aid for 6 villages (Bujr Qas – Al-Thoq Al-Kabeer – Kalotah – Maiasah – Zarni’itah – Bashimra), and the services cover almost (4900) inhabitants, and these services are being provided while there aren’t any emergency and healthcare cernters in the area.
Baran, the 10 year old child from Kobani, goes back to the playground with a smile, after the prosthetic limbs center restored the limbs he lost in the explosion that was caused by ISIS remnants of war.
Baran goes back to the playground with a smile on his face.
Remnants of war usually cause death among civilians, with the majority of the victems being children that are unaware of their danger, and one of these victems was the 10 years old Baran Mazen Qary, he fled along with his family from Kobani to their village “Yaraman” on Feb 18th 2023, escaping the aftermath of the earthquake that hit the area.
But Baran didn’t know that something terrible was going to happen while he was playing with his friends when they’ve found a cluster bomb that was left by ISIS, the bomb exploded resulting in Barans leg, and left arm being amputated, along with many wounds that almost took his life.
On Barans path of recovery, he is attending KRC’s prosthetic limbs center which is located in Qamishlo, where he was given physical therapy and psychological counseling for days.
So that Baran can recover what he lost because of that explosion,and to go back to playing with his friends again, and continue to live his childhood that he almost lost forever.
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.
