Heyva Sora Kurd Health Committee in Shehba Canton is trying to secure health care to all the people who came from Afrin despite the limited possibilities in its hands.

In order to guarantee this care in Shehba many health centres and Avrîn Hospital have been opened.

However, the Health Committee said that it is not able to provide all medicines and medical equipment necessary to properly address the situation due to the blockade in the Canton of Shehba.

Likewise the committee cannot transfer patients to other hospitals and this has inevitably led to an increase in diseases and death.

Most of the Afrin residents who were forced to flee their city and resettled in Shehba, clearly don’t have with them medicines they need, said Mihemed Şêxo, one of the administrators of Avrîn Hospital.

This led to a situation in which medical supplies are little and because of the blockade is difficult to get a regular influx of medicines.

Şêxo said: "Many of our patients need to be transferred to hospitals outside Shehba. We have 30 cancer patients in need of urgent care. We have 27 patients suffering from tuberculosis and 7 from thalassemia (Mediterranean anemia). They all need to be treated urgently. In total, we have 450 of our patients waiting to be able to go out from the Canton”.

Doctor Şêxo reiterated his call on humanitarian aid organisations and asked them to come and visit the region and the people of Afrin in Shehba in order to see for themselves the real serious situation they are living.

The doctor confirmed that Selah Îbrahîm (45), Mehmud Meimo (20), Selah Mihemed (56), Meryem Ebdo (15) and one-year-old baby Beyrem Dede have lost their life in Shehba Canton because of their illness and the impossibility to treat them.