Record low temperatures have been set in the Middle East in recent weeks. The thermometer stays below zero in many regions of Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia. For the inhabitants of the refugee camps in northeastern Syria, such a sharp cold snap has become a real disaster, since people do not have winter clothes, live in tents and are heated using makeshift stoves. According to the International Rescue Committee, about 80 percent of the population of the camps are women and children.
On Tuesday, frosts led to tragedy in two refugee camps, in each of which a newborn child froze to death, according to the Daily Sabah.
In a state of agony, the babies were taken to Dr. Mazen Ar-Rahman at the hospital in the village of Haranbush in the Idlib region.
Fatima Muhammad al-Mahmud was brought from the Al-Leif camp. She was only 7 days old. The girl was brought to us at two in the morning with frostbitten limbs, not responding to external stimuli, she soon died.
The second frost victim was two-month-old Amina Muhammad Salama from the Huwar Al-Ais camp, who was taken to the hospital at 1 a.m., blue from the cold, with extremely low blood pressure. She died at six in the morning.
About 7,000 people live in the village of Kharanbush, and another 70,000 live in refugee camps in the area. “We try to take the children out of the tents for at least a few days, because we receive a lot of people with frostbite and hypothermia. But our hospital has only 15 beds and 8 couches. There is very little space, we cannot do much, but we are doing our best,” says Dr. Ar-Rahman.
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