Sunday, October 28, 2012

In Gaza .. Thalassemia patients complain about the slow death!!



Gaza - press Youssef Hammad
Did not deliver anything from crises, suffering, and the Israeli blockade and others in the Gaza Strip until it came to those who long their term in the waiting smile here or through there, or in the remotest corners but the road hit the cords for some citizens, such as patients with thalassemia who have n
arrowed their remedies, life, and even death in the Gaza Strip.

Thalassemia patients as we approach the World
The ones who approve the eighth of May / May promised nearly as patients in the Gaza Strip, 380 patients are now complaining about the slow death.

We want only a smile
Iris 24 in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip stay at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, more than her home, specifically in the Department of tumors expressed the hope to find a way suitable for the treatment of the street with her being infected with Thalassemia, known internationally as the (anemia Mediterranean region, also known as anemia Mediterranean).

Susan says "I do not want to help financial or material of one we do not want to look at us as if we want money or food, we want to see them smile in the face of all citizens."

She adds, "we experience and challenge at the same time because we are the owners of the right and not be right behind the demands and with full Safi strong commitment to the officials who never bothered to question us, even by mistake," pointing out that in some cases, community looks to Thalassemia patients into ridicule and weakened by the accumulation of iron on "give us the color of our skin and dark black because thalassemia kill the blood cells which affects our members and the external skin especially the face and bumps that arise due to medications that Ntatha with all this we say thank God because this is by the grace of God on us."

Ill-treatment of some nurses and doctors
Shirin 17 years from the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, began her talk to the reporter, "agency Quds Net News," Yousef Hammad and "feeder venous blood" in her hand and grief and pain, much in the mind waiting Siding medical transfer to the Egyptian territories in order to grow bone marrow.

She says Shirin, saying, "The treatment of some doctors to us in the hospital indicate a lack of acceptance of us as human beings in the hospital where the handle rude and ill look as if we Vlana this ourselves, we hope that does not count as one of the get sick so as not to experience what we are in the cracking myself an internal indescribable. " As you mentioned.

The patient appealed to Shirin need to speed up the conversion and in particular to Israel, citing that some of the processes that take place in Egypt does not work at times.,

Shirin, which has talent hair and throw it did not pay attention to this talent that went and remained Thalassemia in control of them with all Gu, and addressed free each official in his position that Ikmoa the work of professional societies for the Victims of the disease, saying it does not want sympathy or mercy, but you want the right to life, even if was simple. ".

We are not human beings
Young Muhammad 28 years from the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza is married and suffers from thalassemia of the third degree, which is the most difficult stages of the disease is now hope for is missing, has during his speech, saying "I do not feel that I live in my country and my country and I do not feel that my parents are as well as this life is not Nrdha If a patient is not treated like a human being. "

Mohammed finished the study Bachelor of Community Education at a university in Gaza said to the reporter, "I divide invalidated on Omh long sit in the body of Omar Mukhtar Street Llano what Khalana end in Gaza or Ramallah, but it came at the Ministry of Health in Gaza write to us medicine is not recognized."

He pointed out that he goes every week to Shifa hospital to take up medicine at the hospital because of the surgery was for me to excised spleen in order to mitigate the spread of the disease, adding: "Most of the deaths that result from Thalassemia come because of cases of depression that afflicts patients because of neglect is unjustified and act Inhuman of professionals in Gaza and Ramallah

And beside him was Ashraf Abu Mujahid, sitting on a sick bed, he expressed his displeasure of neglect suffered by patients calling for the need to provide a psychiatrist for each patient because the positioning of thalassemia patients is very difficult.

"There is no Ministry of Health recognizing us, formally or even drugs are available, as long as we up his strength at times of 6 degrees only and the material of iron in the patient's body, which appeared the phenomenon clearly on the navigator his body said" the percentage of iron to 2000 degrees and in the natural man reaches only 200 which Atabna always. "

He explained that in a few days in detention at a police station in Gaza because of a complaint filed against the Ministry of Health for it - he said - do not bother them.

Ministry of Health be surprised ..
Dr. Ashraf ability spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza surprised at some of the patients' complaints, saying, "We periodically do care and nutrition of patients with thalassemia blood almost every week."

The ability of the reporter, saying agency Quds Net reported "There is a private association in the hospital under the Ministry of Health dedicated to Thalassemia patients and provide them with care in all areas as much as possible."

On the subject of ill-treatment by some doctors and two patients in the hospital said, "There are some particles that lose sight of it and be the actions of other personal and Thtajma to search and check if this is true we will take appropriate action against all abuse."

He pointed out that the ability of the Ministry of Health, treatment and disposal of medicines for patients and there is no treatment had been cashed at random or is not appropriate for patients but by the Ministry of Health and through Shehadlyatea only.

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