Rehabilitation of Shaddadi Hospital in Syria’s Hasakah near completion
SHADDADI, Syria (North Press) – The supervisor of maintenance and restoration works at Shaddadi city hospital, in the southern countryside of Hasakah, said on Sunday that they have completed 70 percent of the hospital’s restoration, and that it will enter service within a maximum period of four months.
The city’s only hospital was severely damaged during the battles in the city to expel the Islamic State (ISIS) from it in 2016.
Qahraman al-Ali, the supervisor of maintenance and restoration at the hospital, said, “We are working on removing the rubble, extending the electricity network, plumbing, and installing tiles and stones.”
“The maintenance workshops completed about 70% of the work,” he added.
He further explained that the maintenance work and handover of the hospital to the Health Committee was scheduled to be finished at the end of this year, but the massive scale of the destruction in it prevented that.
He noted that they will finish maintenance within a maximum period of four months.
The General Hospital in Shaddadi consists of three buildings which ISIS used as its own military hospital in 2013.
In a previous statement to North Press in July, Saleh Ali, a member of the Health Committee in Shaddadi, said that they had started on a project to maintain and restore Shaddadi Hospital, provided that it enters service within a period not exceeding a year.
“A large part of the hospital was destroyed as a result of aerial attacks, and all medical equipment in it was stolen during ISIS’s control of the city,” he said.