Syria’s COVID-19 Hospital: new coronavirus strain has slow recovery
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – COVID-19 (Washokani) Hospital in the western countryside of the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, revealed that the new wave of coronavirus epidemic recovery is very slow, and the patient does not recover quickly.
Khair al-Din al-Issa, an emergency medicine specialist in COVID-19 Hospital, said that “the infections have been increasing for 15 days, and nearly 6-7 suspected cases and 5-6 positive cases come daily.”
The Kurdish Red Crescent, in conjunction with the Italian organization UPP, equipped the hospital in April of last year with a capacity of 120 beds, in addition to the availability of oxygen cylinders and some medical equipment.
Al-Issa explained that the symptoms are mainly hypoxia (the lack of oxygen) and severe respiratory failure, and patients with such symptoms are put on ventilators. Others, he adds, have digestive symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting, while other cases had only mild symptoms that required home care and isolation.
“The number of deaths was 16 in March, and there have been no large numbers in April, but infections are increasing,” al-Issa added.
Al-Issa stated that they have mostly received patients from 55 to 70 years old. “We don’t have any children aged five to eight; there were children over 10 years old and their conditions were good so we sent them home.”
He concluded, “we hope this lockdown improves the situation and extends.”
On Sunday, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) imposed complete lockdown in all of the areas it controls in northeast Syria to ward off the danger posed by coronavirus where it was imposed a complete lockdown in the cities of Qamishli, Hasakah and Raqqa, in addition to partial curfew in the other cities and regions.