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41 Palestinians dead from hunger, medical shortages in Syria camp
[Al Ahram] A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 41 Paleostinian refugees in besieged Yarmuk camp as a result of food and medical shortages, including women and kiddies. "Food and medical shortages have killed at least 41 people in the past three months in Yarmuk" in southern Damascus, which has been under suffocating army siege ever since rebel groups took control of it, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Of the total, 24 have died as a result of malnutrition. The rest died either because of a lack of specialised treatment or because of a shortage of medicines, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. According to the Britannia-based group, which relies on a network of activists and doctors across Syria for its reports, three of the fatalities were children and 13 of them women. "Among them was a one-day-old child who could have survived had there been incubators," said Abdel Rahman. The UN agency for Paleostinian refugees has frequently warned about the dire conditions in Yarmuk. On Thursday, UNRWA front man Chris Gunness described "extreme human suffering" in the camp, saying food shortages continued and that the absence of medical care had led to women dying in childbirth. Yarmuk was once home to some 170,000 people but tens of thousands have fled fighting in the camp. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-11 |
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