The Elderly and Hopeless Nursing Home in the town of Harem in northern Idlib province was founded to host the disabled and elderly who were displaced from the Nursing Home in Jisr al-Shoghour, in 2015 and found no place or support or protection.
The judge Dr. Mohammed Nour Hamidi, the recent manager and the founder of the “Home” with help of some people who agreed on establishing the elderly home in his home town instead of the one was destroyed in Jisr al-Shoghour.
The “Home” is consists of two levels, the ground level has 4 rooms, a big hall, a garden with a small swimming pool, two bathrooms, and a kitchen. The first level is not finished, it is only walls and a ceiling. The local council of the town of 'Isqat al-Nizam' in the countryside of Idlib had offered this property to be used as an Elderly Home. The “home” received individual support for 6 months, but is stopped suddenly, and now for 2 years, Dr, Hamidi is the only source of support, as he provides the food and clothes to old people in the “Home”.
The support is not limited to people inside the “Home”, as many old people outside are included and receive medication and medical equipments like wheelchairs, crutches and toilets suitable for the elderly, according to Dr. Hamidi.
The judge Hamidi detailed that a physician visits the elderly regularly and check their health and provides them with their medication and needed care.
There are 10 guests in the nursing home, who have no relatives to visit, one of them is 65 years old and she has been in the home for 40 years, since the foundation of the home in 1950. Supervisors of the home look after old people and take care of their health and emotional status, and provide them with all they need according to resources. There are many volunteers who visit the nursing home daily to help in looking after the elderly.
The only mandate condition for admitting elderly in the nursing home is being able to go to toilet on their own, as paralysis conditions need special care, which is not available.
The nursing home according to Hamidi hosts the disabled because of the war, as many cases need to join the home, but lack of support and the small size are obstacles facing the ability to welcome more disabled.
Hamidi mentioned that many humanitarian organisations have communicated with him and took information about the home and promised of support and help, but till now no one returned to them.
Hamidi confirmed that the Nursing home of elderly and disabled in the town of Isqat al-Nizam lacks any support or concern of revolutionary or humanitarian body, although the guests are victims of the war and lost all hopes of life and they are in urgent need for help
