Dispensary in Syria’s Raqqa unable to receive patients
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Al-Karama dispensary in eastern Raqqa in northern Syria does not have the capacity to receive patients due to the shortage in medications, an administrative in the dispensary revealed on Thursday.
Majida al-Issa, an administrative in the al-Karama dispensary, said there are no medications and no doctors available in the medical center to treat patients, so they refer them to the closest dispensary.
She told North Press that for over three months, they have not received the dispensary’s share of medicine, “arguing that there are no doctors.”
This forces the people responsible for the al-Karama medical center to refer patients to medical centers affiliated with NGOs as doctors and medicine are available there, according to al-Issa.
She noted that the center used to have several specializations. However, since the center was administratively subjected to the Health Commission affiliated with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), all workers have quitted due to low wages and went to work in medical centers supported by NGOs.
Al-Issa demanded the Health Committee activates the al-Karama medical center and support it with doctors and medicine to be able to treat patients amid the contamination of the Euphrates River and the spread of diseases and pandemics.