Confirming the first positive case with COVID-19 in northeastern Syria

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Confirming the first positive case with COVID-19 in northeastern Syria

According to the World Health Organization and following the principles of the United Nations Charter, health is one of the fundamental rights of every person without distinction as to race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. The health of all peoples is essential to achieving peace and security and depends on the full cooperation of individuals and countries. ….

On April 16, we were notified, along with our partners in NES FORUM, that the Health Authority of Northern Syria’s self-management had attended, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in northeastern Syria through the Regional Office of WHO.

The case is  53-year-old man from Al-Hasakah city

The symptoms were general weakness with fever, cough, difficulty breathing, sore throat, muscle aches, headache, and pneumonia.

The patient was suffering from high blood pressure and other heart diseases, and the case did not have a travel history or contracting with other suspected cases where the sample was taken on March 27 and sent to Damascus on March 29 and the patient unfortunately died on April 2, in the intensive care unit in Qamishli National Hospital, on the same day, April 2, the confirmation was done  in the laboratory in Damascus, and the results of the analysis were not shared by the World Health Organization, nor by the Syrian Ministry of Health with any health organization or party operating in northern Syria, but we were notified, late and sudden, of World Health Office -the regional office- which is outside Syria.

In total, there were 33 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Syria, five of which were recovering, and two cases died, 19 of which were recorded since the beginning of April.

There is a high risk of a large spread of the virus due to the delay in informing the self-administration and humanitarian organisation in northern Syria of the positive result, after 15 days of the case, and what is particularly worrying is the possibility of health workers being exposed due to their rotation in the health facilities that received the case.

There is a need to impose other restrictions and to apply greater social divergence.

The risk of COVID-19 to northern Syria is very large, due to the presence of more than 300,000 displaced people and refugees who do not have access to adequate preventive health services in light of the outbreak of COVID-19.            This includes 118879 people in ten official and unofficial camps, who cannot obtain health measures,Adequate preventive or social distancing

KRC opened an emergency and ambulance center in Al-Hasaka city

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to contend the Corona epidemic, with the aim of expanding the emergency service in the city of Al-Hasaka and the cities and towns surrounding it, we recently opened an emergency and ambulance centre, including a medical staff consisting of 15 between paramedics and nurses, 6 drivers and 5 ambulances to be available 24/7.

Intensive work against Corona virus

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In conjunction with the home quarantine imposed from 23 of March 2020, our medical teams continue to work and intensify their efforts to prevent the emerging coronavirus ,Committed to all preventive measures through
Providing health care services in all medical points and dispensaries with implementation of the triage plan through isolation rooms to find out any suspicious cases.
Holding continuous health education campaigns in all regions through awareness-raising rounds and distributing health brochures.
Holding and attending intensive medical trainings by the medical teams.

Measures to prevent the spread of Corona virus

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As a precaution against the COVID 19 (Corona virus ), the Municipalities in cooperation with the Kurdish Red Crescent team, started a campaign to wash and sterilize the main streets in Qamishlo.

KRC’s medical teams

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Thirty six days of continuous shelling on north and east of Syria, resulted in wounding and killing hundreds of civilians, displacing thousands of people addition to the terrifying conditions that the population of the other villages and towns have been suffering.
All these conditions have been experienced by our medical teams, but they didn’t retreated in saving people’s lives, despite the big danger they were facing, as they have been targeted several times by Turkish airstrikes and bombardments, and one martyred and many wounded.

The last report of the Kurdish Red Crescent on the health situation

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9.10.2019

Turkish and islamic groups militarty invasion in Northeast Syria:
on October 9, 2019 the Turkish army with islamic alies started an offensive targeting mainly the
area betweeen Serekaniye and Tilebyed. SDF in turn started to defend the area, after few hours a
massive displacement of pupuation started toward south areas such as Hasake city and Tiltemir
city.
It was reported that 2 airplains were used so far targeting the following areas:
Airstrikes:

• Sere kaniye (Ras Al Ain) x7
• Ein Issa x2
• Tell Abiad x1

• 1635hrs: indirect fire against Tell Salloush(west Al Munbateh) – Tell Abiad Sub-District.
• 1640hrs: airstrike onto former CF border post in Tell Fender – Tell Abiad Sub-District.
• 1650hrs: indirect fire onto Bir Asheq checkpoint – Tell Abiad Sub-District.
• 1650hrs: two airstrikes against Abu Serraand Hoshan villages (approx. 15km North West of Ein Issa Town) – Ein Issa Sub-District. Six SDF members were reportedly killed.
• 1700hrs: indirect fire on a military position of the Tell Abiad Military Council (evacuated a week ago) and onto the school in Yabseh village – Tell Abiad Sub-District.
• 1730hrs: Indirect fire towards Qanat Swiys Neighbourhood of Quamishli City –Quamishli SubDistrict.
• 1730hrs: Mortar rounds and artillery fire onto the outskirts of Mansura village – Al-Malekkiyeh Sub-district.
• 1740hrs: Indirect Fire onto the outskirts ofEsmailiyeh village – Al-Malekkiyeh Sub-district.
• 1820hrs: Indirect Fire against Tal Elhasanat and Kherbet Balak villages – Jawadiyah Subdistrict.
• 1830hrs: TAF removed parts from the wall north of Quamishli City. • At night a lot of clashes were happening in TIlebyed and casiualtis from both sided were recorded.

Any further event/incidents will be shared in the next update.
Casualties and damages so far:
Current information suggests the following civilian casualties recorded by KRC team until 9pm:
25 injuries:
(4 of them female)
15 male between 18 and 50 years old.
6 children less than 17 shrapnel and shocked – between
5 dead cases (3 of them are male and 2 are female from Qamishli and tilebyed)

The hospital in Serekaniye (Ras Al-Ain) is out of services, cases has been referred to Tal Tamr Hospital, Hassakeh Hospital and Ein Issa Hospital.

The largest Christian Neighborhood (Bisheriya) in NE Syria is being bombed and some civilian houses were burned, 2 of the died civilians were from there.

This targeting is affecting the situaiton in NES for Local and IDPs in the the 7 main camps in NES; we have already decleared in KRC that: Due to the clashes on the border with Turkey and injuries and casualties, we have been required to reposition our medical and ambulance teams from several camps such as Alhol, Areesha, Ain Issa, roj and other camps. Unfortunately, this situation may cause a decline in the quality of work in these camps, which contain tens of thousands of refugees and displaced people, but the priorities of the stage requires that we respond first to life-threatening situations. Most of our partners from humanitarian organizations and other INGOs in the region, for security reasons, have limited access to the camps, which threatens to decrease the service and increase the burden on the camp administrations and security forces guarding certain sectors within these camps such as Al Hol. We will work in the Kurdish Red Crescent in our best efforts to arrange our teams to respond to the emergency situation on the border with Turkey and to continue working with the same quality in the camps.

The rains are sinking Kobani neighborhoods

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Heavy rain occurs flooding in Kobani, after the rain lasted for a long time , several neighborhoods and homes were filled with rainwater  .

The emergency team of the Kurdish Red Crescent  rushed to help the people inside  houses and neighborhoods.

While the Kurdish Red Crescent emergency team continues  it tours to help the people until this moment .

The mobile units is other part from the human work by KRC

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The Kurdish Red crescent has started recently the mobile unit project for women and children health cases which serve country sides and villages af Rojava and Northern Syria .

 

The three mobile units have begun their work at the middle of November in 2017 with medical staff which contain Gynecologist , midwife ,nurse ,Paediatrician beside an ambulance for each one with  a driver and a medic for emergence cases in the areas of Raqqa , Tapqa cities and Aresha camp .

 

Each mobile unit contains the necessary medical equipment as Echo device ,preview bed , giving birth bed and other necessary medical equipment .

The mobile unit in Al Raqqa tries to treat patients as much as they can in (Mazraa Al- Galla  _ Mazraa Al-Qahtania  _ Al-Salhabia Al-Sharqia and the west area from Raqqa city ),whereas the mobile unit which exists in Al Tabqa city works two days a week in Al Twayhinea , two days in  Al Mansora  and a day in Al  Mahmudlia villages ,While  the mobile unit which it follow to Aresha camp is going to move . to Abo Khashab point because of opening a new field hospital in Aresha camp

An older woman represents the most beautiful form of steadfastness in face of the war

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This woman, who resisted to going with Daesh and stood up to staying in her home, where she was insulted and severely beaten, because of she made this  decision.

 She remained in her chair for 8 days with its harsh nights ,she had not any food just had some water to drink.

At the end of the handover of the city of Raqqa to the Civil Council and in the liberation celebrations, one of the civilians heard when he left the celebration a voice came from one of the houses calling seeking for  (Khaeria). He rushed to find the Syrian Democratic Forces to enter and rescue the woman.

They brought her to the Kurdish Red Crescent Hospital (TSP2) where the paramedics improved her condition and handed her to her relatives in Al-Hamrat area of Al-Raqqa city.