On 22 November 2019, the Autonomous Administration established the Girê Spî Migrant Camp for citizens forcibly expelled from Girê Spî by the occupying Turkish state and allied mercenaries. The camp is home to nearly 7 thousand migrants.

Girê Spî Migrant Camp Administration called for support to restore health services after a health institution affiliated to an organisation stopped providing health services for 4 months. The mobile health team of Kurdish Red Crescent -Heyva Sor a Kurd- mobilised in response to this call.

Ezîze Hesen, the Co-Chair of the camp administration, said: “A medical team of Heyva Sor a Kurd responded to our calls for health services. This happened after the health services in a health institution affiliated with an organisation were stopped and health services were negatively affected.”

There are 2 health institutions in the camp; one of them is affiliated to the IRC organisation and was temporarily providing services 2 days a week, but it has been out of service for 4 months. The other health institution is affiliated to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, but there was a shortage of medicines and doctors and only medical counselling and emergency intervention were provided.

“We hope that the medical teams will continue to help, as the migrants are in a difficult economic situation,” said Ezîze Hesen.

The Heyva Sor a Kurd medical team, which has been working for a few days, will work temporarily for the next 3 months according to the agreement. The team consists of a general practitioner, a female nurse, a medical counsellor and a pharmacist.

“In response to the calls of the citizens in the camp, we, as a team, will try to provide assistance to all migrants in the camp,’ said team member Muna Eswed, who spoke to ANHA.

Muna Eswed noted that in addition to their work, they also warned the residents about diarrhoea and infectious diseases as well as motherhood.