A family shout for help to treat disabled son

Al-Shadadi – North-Press Agency
Bassem Shuwaikh

Ali al-Sultan’s family suffers difficult humanitarian conditions, in addition to the lack of any source of income for the family and the inability of the 70-year-old father to work, the family suffers the inability to meet the requirements for its son with cerebral palsy and complete disability in his body.

Al-Sultan’s family in the town of al-Shadadi, about 60 km south Hasakah, is comprised of father Ali al-Sultan, his 25-year-old son Ahmed, and his daughter Khadija, who dedicated herself to serve her cerebral palsy brother.

Lack of support and high costs
In the absence of the humanitarian organizations in the city, and the absence of the specialized hospitals, and the high costs of treatment outside the city, father, Ali Sultan bears the burden of treating his son, whose health is deteriorating day by day, as he told North-Press.

These extra burdens of life are overburdening the impoverished family “especially with the absence of any breadwinner after the three young men left home and lived in their own homes after their marriage,” Khadija said.

Sultan added that he often had to ask for help from others, because he is unable to afford the house as well as the costs of his injured son.

He is waiting for the aid of a humanitarian organization or other entities to help them with their poor situation, while his 36-year-old daughter, Khadija said that she has dedicated herself to serve her brother, who is permanently disabled.

Khadija recalls her mother, who was killed in an aerial bombardment in the southern countryside of Hasakah, explaining that her brother had been suffering from cerebral palsy since his birth, but he was able to move a little bit, and he was talking with them and crawling on his hands.

However, she added that the air strikes of the Global Coalition against ISIS hit their house during the battles, and her brother was hit by some shrapnel, which completely caused him losing movement.

Facing conditions
Khadija asserted that the family showed her brother to a number of doctors to treat him, pointing out that some doctors told them that there is a hope of treatment, but that it needs considerable financial costs, which they do not have.

Khadija considers herself a mother, sister and housekeeper, and as she continues to look after her brother, while awaits any humanitarian organization or official body for help.