Dozens of volunteer health workers are for the last one month providing medical service to the people from Kobanê in the border district of Suruç in Urfa province.

Ahead of the approaching winter season, volunteer health workers continue to perform medical checkup on refugees sheltered in the tent city which was set up by the Suruç Municipality and hosts some 5 thousand people from Kobanê.

Seher Tümer, one of the health workers here, stressed that they were caught unprepared and all of a sudden for a flow of refugees, and called attention to the trauma the people of Kobanê are going through due to the ongoing war. Tümer, who is coming from Ankara for volunteer work and assistance, pointed out that medicine was the most urgent need of the people sheltered here.

Tümer underlined that people resorted to medicine in order to be able to overcome the trauma they have been through, for a kind of therapy, and to cope with the psychological exhaustion caused by the destruction the war has led up to.

"Health and medicine is their basic concern now. There is not a critical epidemic process but the conditions in the tent city are not very favorable. We are trying to come up with a solution to the infrastructure problem with an aim to make the tent city liveable. We are doing this without receiving any support from the state nor its institutions", Tümer told.

Underlining that it was a humanitarian duty to look after the people who have suffered losses and pains due to war going on in Kobanê, Tümer put emphasis on the need for volunteer health workers, adding; "We also need psychiatrists here, and volunteer teams of experts to provide service for a week or 10 days. I am Turkish but I am here, believing and defending that we need to dress the wounds caused by the savagery in Kobanê, without any discrimination of language, religion and race. The trauma caused by the war in Kobanê is not one that can be erased from the memory so easily. The people who left their children in Kobanê to fight for humanity and are leaving at tents here now are in need of experts to provide them assistance, especially psychiatrists."