Maintenance work on Syria’s Shaddadi Hospital nearly complete
SHADDADI, Syria (North Press) – Maintenance workshops in Shaddadi Hospital, in Syria’s south Hasakah countryside, have accomplished about 95% of the ongoing rehabilitation work in order to hand it over to the Health Board before it enters into service, according to supervisors of the project.
This was the only hospital in the city, and was violently destroyed during the battles that took place there to expel the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2016.
The public hospital in Shaddadi consists of three blocks of buildings that ISIS seized and turned into its special military hospital in 2013.
Maintenance and rehabilitation works supervisor Muhammad Zaydo said, “The remaining works will be finished within a month.”
He told North Press that they would hand the hospital over to the Health Board in order to equip it with the necessary medical equipment and supplies.
During ISIS’ rule in 2016, a big part of the hospital was destroyed as a result of airstrikes and the theft of all medical equipment, according to officials in the Health Committee.
Early in 2020, the Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) revealed in press statements plans to rehabilitate Shaddadi Hospital with an estimated budget of $4,000,000.
Being the only public hospital in the southern countryside of the city, it would serve areas south of Hasakah and north of Deir ez-Zor, Health Committee member in Shaddadi Tareq al-Kere’i told North Press.