Children continue to die in the camps of northern Syria, due to the severe cold wave that hits the area, and the lack of heating facilities in these camps.
Within just one day, two girls died in the northern Syrian camps this morning, as a result of the severe cold wave. Opposition websites, quoting local sources, said that the first girl died at the age of no more than seven days, in Al-Laith camp in the Harbanush area, north of Idlib, due to the severe cold.
The second child, aged two months, died in Sheikh Bahr camp in Idlib, as a result of severe cold injury, according to a medical report issued by Al-Rahman Hospital, which stated that the girl arrived at the hospital suffering from severe cold and cyanosis in the body, then worsened to develop pulmonary hemorrhage and respiratory depression, which led to her death.
The medical director of Al-Rahman Specialist Hospital in Harbnoush said that the girl Fatima Al-Mahmoud arrived on Monday at two o’clock at night, and she died, noting that she had cold extremities and dilated pupils, with signs of pulmonary bleeding from the nose and mouth.
Al-Talawi added, in statements to an opposition website, that the second child is Amina Muhammad Salama, who arrived on Monday at one in the afternoon in a bad general condition with severe cold and slow heart with cyanosis and severe hypoglycemia, stressing that she was immediately treated in the incubator department, but the child suffered from bleeding. Shocked lung with respiratory depression, and she did not respond to resuscitation until she died today, Tuesday, at six in the morning. Al-Talawi indicated that the diagnosed cause of death for the two girls was severe cold and shocking pulmonary haemorrhage.
More than a week ago, a child died in a camp in northern Syria due to the severe cold and frost that hit the area.
Local sources said that “the child (Salah Muhannad Junaid) died in (Zoghra) camp in Jarablus countryside, east of Aleppo, due to cold and frost.”
A few days before that, a child died in a camp in northern Syria, and his mother was transferred to intensive care after a snow storm covered the tents of the displaced and the tent fell on their heads, accompanied by a sharp drop in temperatures that reached the freezing point, and a number of children were transferred to hospitals because of the severe cold.
The cold claims the lives of more children in the northern camps: two new infants die in one day
