SYRIA | A House of Health for Şehba
Şehba, a region north-west of Syria, autonomous state of Rojava, not far from Aleppo, welcomes 10,000 people who have fled the war, mainly women and children, hosted in 5 refugee camps with precarious sanitary conditions and under continuous bombing.
In the temporary refugee camps, the tents have now become permanent homes, hot in summer and cold in winter. In addition to education and work what is missing are health facilities, medical care and the few operating hospitals are often impossible to reach.
The Şehba Health Committee managed by our local partner Kongra Star for years dreamed of giving a concrete response to the need for medical and health care for women and children who are often victims of war trauma and have high risks of new pregnancies.
We have decided to respond to this humanitarian emergency by starting together the renovation of a building made available by the Municipality which will become the New Home of Health with 4 health areas of specialization: Gynaecology, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Psychological Counselling, Naturopathy.
We will provide medical and healthcare equipment: emergency and inpatient beds, ultrasound machines with contrast media, a birth tub, rehabilitation equipment, nebulizers for treating asthma and allergies, an oil press for processing natural healing herbs, as medicines they are under embargo and difficult to supply.
The Health House will be managed by local medical and paramedical staff and will serve as a triage and treatment point with patient transport links from the 5 refugee camps for widespread impact with the full support of the Şehba Municipality. The structure will be for civilian use and with a ban on the entry of weapons.
Another primary objective we are working on is energy and water autonomyof the structure in an area where there is often a lack of electricity, diesel and water from the public network. Connections to new water sources and provision of solar panels to guarantee, as much as possible, sustainability and independence from external factors and therefore operational continuity at the Casa della Salute.
We are working every day to allow the opening by 2023, aware that the need cannot wait when it comes to the Right to Health and Life.
We believe in it, together with many entities that have understood the scope and need for this intervention and have decided to place their trust in us by supporting part of the works and the purchase of the necessary equipment.
Together with us on this journey of building Peace: Le Case degli Angeli di Daniele Onlus in support of construction works, medical supplies and always alongside Kurdish women, NCR Biochemical in support of water and energy works, our local partners Kongra Star, WJAS Free Women Foundation, Kurdistanhilfe e.V..
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