Dozens fall ill due to polluted water in IDP camp in Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – A medical NGO said on Sunday that they receive dozens of gastrointestinal cases in an IDP camp in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria on a daily basis due to contaminated water.
Dlawer Mohammed Ali, a paramedic with the Kurdish Red Crescent (KRC) working in the Sere Kaniye camp for IDPs, said that they register many cases of diarrhea and intestinal inflammation daily due to consumption of contaminated water.
The Sere Kaniye camp hosts around 15,000 displaced people and is not recognized or supported by the U.N.
It was established in 2020 to transfer IDPs who had settled in schools in the city of Hasakah after the occupation of the cities of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad in 2019 by Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA).
The camp is supplied with water from the Hama wells in the north of Hasakah via tankers. The water from the wells is not sterilized and the tankers that transport it are mostly rusty.
According to KRC statistics, around 85 people fall ill every month, most of them children, in the camp due to contaminated water, Ali told North Press.
By Dilsoz Youssef