Tarek khawam
A seventeen-year old boy died last Monday in Madaya, the besieged town of western countryside of Damascus due to a severe malnutrition. The boy's sister said that the "Red Crescent" entered the town yesterday and tried to take him out in order to get proper medical care, but Hezbollah's militias and the regime forces which besiege the town refused to let him out. The girl added that her brother was shot dead this winter by a sniper from Hezbollah militias while looking for firewood. He was tortured and brought back to Madaya by Hezbollah's members who wouldn't let him out to get medical care in Damascus private hospital.
Doctor "Muhammed Al Yousuf" from the besieged town told Baladi news that the boy suffers from an old injury in his abdomen along with signs of torture that caused him a brain damage. This damage resulted from severe beatings on his head at a regime-held hospital four months ago where he was "supposedly" receiving his medical treatment.
He went on saying that the child didn't eat anything for a whole week and the medical staff tried to help him by supplying his body with serums, minerals, and vitamin ampules, but he didn't respond and passed away this morning.
The doctor asserted that their medical team is continuously calling upon Red Crescent and UN to evacuate patients with urgent medical cases to be cured outside the town, but their efforts didn't pay off, because Hezbollah's militia refuse to let them go.
Doctor Al Yousuf pointed out that they are trying their best to rescue the patients with the available medicines which are "F100, F75, and Soya beans", but only 40% of them responded to treatment. They are in urgent need for a medicine called "Blood Pipon" Which is unavailable along with nourishing patients with proteins from red meat, milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables which are also unavailable, noting that the food portions provided by UN contain mainly Legumes, he added.
Doctor Al Yousuf called upon international organizations to put pressure on Assad's regime to open crossings towards all besieged areas in Syria and allow vaccinations in Madaya where children had not taken their vaccines in more than a year.
Militias of Hezbollah and Assad's forces had been besieging Madaya since July 2015. The regime recently agreed on letting humanitarian aids into the town, but all sources inside assure that it's not enough; 72 people have starved to death since the siege started.
