The process of forced displacement in Arsal in Lebanon extended to medical staff in the town's hospitals and medical points inside the Syrian refugee camps.
According to Ammar Johmani correspondent, 5 specialized doctors, 7 anesthesiologists, 22 nurses, 10 surgeon assistants, 3 legal midwives and 4 laboratory specialist were transferred to Idlib along with of the 7,500 Syrian refugees who left the border town under the agreement between the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
A media source, who preferred not to be identified, spoke of the health situation after forced displacement. He said that there are two hospitals in the town of Arsal who specialize in treating our people in the camps with symbolic and semi-free wages, al-Rahmeh Hospital and al-Hayaa al-Tubya Hospital.
"We have lost five of our best medical staff after the battle in Arsal. They were s a general surgeon, a gynecologist, a radiologist, a dermatologist, a dentist, as well as many nurses, anesthesiologists,” he said.
"With the departure of the only general surgeon in the town, the situation of our people in the town's camps has entered the danger stage. No doctor is now able to perform the simplest surgical procedures in both hospitals, such as excess and gallbladder surgery or tonsillectomy," he added.
He clarified, "any patient who needs surgery, even a minor one, will have to enter a private hospital outside the town. This will be very costly for the patient, not to mention the security risk and the detention that he may suffer because of having to cross through the military and security barriers that impose a security cordon around the town. Almost complete state of siege. "
The source revealed that the city's hospitals are missing a digestive doctor and an otolaryngologist, which limits the ability of the patients to provide treatment for this type of patients.
As for the number of Syrian doctors who are still working in the town's camps, he said that there are 21 Syrian doctors who are divided into the following specialties: (Internal: 5 doctors, orthopedic one doctor, in-kind: one doctor, anesthesia: two doctors, Four doctors, children: two doctors, tumors: one doctor, polyclinic: one doctor, a heart: one doctor, a skin: one doctor, radiology: one doctor).
The source attributed the departure of Syrian medical personnel to Idlib to the fear being killed and arrested after the Lebanese army brutally killed the Syrian nurse Anas Hussein al-Husseiki working in al-Rahmeh Hospital after the Lebanese army offensive last July on al-Qarya, al-Nur camps in Arsal.
Hospitals in the Syrian town of Arsal are suffering from a severe shortage of many medical devices that are used to treat Syrians, most notably the CT scanner and endoscopy, as well as the lack of essential medicines such as heart medications, pressure and doses for cancer patients.
