For the attention of all competent bodies and humanitarian agencies

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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

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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

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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.

 

Washukani camp

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In the framework of our non- stop support to more than 13 camps for displaced and refugees in NES including Washukani camp, which is home to (14,828) displaced from the city of Sri Kanih. Those people got displaced coinciding with the entering of the Turkish army and the opposition factions to Sri Kanih and the nearby villages.
Besides providing primary health care, health education campaigns and psychological counselling at our center, we also started distributing (4,000) mattresses to cover the need of each family in all tents in the camp. However, the campaign started on 11/7/2021.

The shelling continues on the displaced in Al-Shahaba

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The Turkish Army, backed by Islamic factions, continues to bomb the areas of Shahba, to which the people of Afrin have fled, and today three people have been killed by this attack (two children from the town of Tal Rifaat, ages 8 and 12 years , and a displaced woman from Afrin)
More than six people, all civilians from the same families, were wounded, including children and women.
The Turkish attacks on a camp area inhabited by IDPs and civilians are a blatant violation of any humanity or ethic law.
 
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Kurdish Red Crescent’s work during 2020

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2020 was a year full of extraordinary events for our work in the health sector, With the spread of Covid-19 virus, we gave an important and wide space to reduce the disease through several mechanisms, the most important of which was case management by preparing centers (3 centers) and departments of (5 hospitals) and a private hospital (Covid-19) in Al-Hasaka, where the number of beds in all facilities reached to more than 5,000 beds including beds for intensive care, an operating desk and rapid response teams and ambulances specilzed for the refeal of critical cases, and health education teams.

Also we opened new medical points for primary and secondary health care in each of (Tal Hajar / Hasakah City – Washokani Camp – Sere Kaniye Camp – Hamrat Al-Ghanam / Al-Raqqa City), in addition to three emergency centers in each of the cities of (Hasaka – Derik – Raqqa).
In addition to the continuous work of other sectors such as WASH, protection, relief and shelter sectors.
We started several evelopment and stabilisation projects such as road lighting project, proper disposal of medical waste, prosthetic center and physical treatment and many other activities…

The total number of beneficiaries of the Kurdish Red Crescent services during 2020 reached (1,649,826).

Covid-19 centers and hospitals

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Since the spread of Covid-19 virus in North Syria, we expanded our response to include hotlines that tracked by the operation Desk, emergency centers for covid patients and rapid response teams, expanding Covid awareness campaigns.
The need to establish Covid-19 hospitals and health centers was an essential issue we had to conduct in a short time to face this pandemic.
The Kurdish Red Crescent medical staff more than (200) doctors, paramedics and nurses who work within these centers and hospitals receive periodic trainings to enhance the medical service quality, besides get more benefit of the avialable resources to have more recovered cases. Embark on a zany journey with the rick and morty wubba slot demo .