PNN – A Syrian doctor in the Druze-populated province of Sweida, referring to the disastrous health condition of the province’s national hospital and the continuous power and water outages since a week ago, said that the hospital is full of decomposing bodies and the wounded are dying one after another due to a lack of medicine.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, While the streets and neighborhoods of the province have become battlefields since Monday of last week, following the campaign of terrorists affiliated with Abu Muhammad al-Julani, the head of the Syrian interim government, to the Druze province of Sweida, and horrific scenes of the massacre of nearly a thousand civilians took place in just a few days, and these crimes have still not completely stopped, a Syrian doctor in Sweida described the condition of its hospital as catastrophic.
Omar Obeid, a Syrian doctor in Sweida, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed that decomposing bodies are piled up in the Sweida National Hospital. The closure of the roads leading to Sweida Hospital has prevented medical staff from reaching the hospital in recent days, and we have worked beyond our capacity to provide treatment to the wounded.
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He added: We lost three of our best doctors on the roads while trying to reach the hospital, and people were afraid to go to the hospital amid the shooting, shelling and massacres. The Sweida hospital is now filled with decomposing bodies and has become a mass grave.
The Syrian doctor continued: The Sweida hospital was also full of wounded people and we had to discharge all the patients so that we could treat the wounded. Some of the wounded died because they could not reach the hospital or because of the lack of medicine. Hundreds of people have been massacred in recent days, and we still do not know the details and dimensions of this tragedy; especially since many people may have been killed inside their homes and their numbers are not available.
Dr. Obaid stated: The area around Sweida Hospital has been turned into a morgue, and due to the high air temperature, bodies are decomposing, so we must expect the spread of contagious and dangerous diseases in the coming days. At Sweida Hospital, we need everything from painkillers to sterilization equipment, surgical gloves, and wound dressings, and we are facing a severe shortage of equipment.
He further warned that the resumption of fighting, in addition to the deaths of the wounded, will lead to the complete destruction of the Sweida hospital, and we demand that the roads be opened to allow aid to enter the city, especially since Sweida has been without electricity and water for a week.
This is why the Syrian Druze community has a deep sense of injustice and marginalization. On the other hand, the narrative of the Bedouin tribes as victims is also being promoted, because they are also marginalized in Syrian society and are as afraid of the future as the Druze.
Since the Golani government came to power in Damascus, terrorist elements affiliated with it have attacked Sweida province under various sectarian pretexts, increasing the suffering of the people there. Local activists reported that thousands of families from Sweida have been displaced to seemingly safer locations, often schools or community centers, but these locations are ill-equipped to meet their basic needs, and the shelter crisis for the Druze is deepening as homes continue to be demolished.