A cancer patient receiving treatment at a hospital in Idlib. (Credit: Abdel Majid el-Karh)
It became a habit to go back and forth. Since August 2022, Hamza Saadeddin, a 10 year old resident of Syria’s Idlib province, has traveled to Antakya 17 times for chemotherapy sessions.But his treatment was put on hold on Feb. 6. The earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people on both sides of the border created barriers that even the literal borders themselves did not impose between northwestern Syria and southern Turkey. With this terrible consequence, it has become impossible for Syrian cancer patients to continue their treatment in Turkish hospitals, which was a solution that had made up for the collapse of the health system in northwestern Syria, which is a stronghold of the rebels and jihadist groups and is beyond the regime ’s control. Read more: Through Bab al-Hawa, it's a painful return home for Syrian...
It became a habit to go back and forth. Since August 2022, Hamza Saadeddin, a 10 year old resident of Syria’s Idlib province, has traveled to Antakya 17 times for chemotherapy sessions.But his treatment was put on hold on Feb. 6. The earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people on both sides of the border created barriers that even the literal borders themselves did not impose between northwestern Syria and southern Turkey. With this terrible consequence, it has become impossible for Syrian cancer patients to continue their treatment in Turkish hospitals, which was a solution that had made up for the collapse of the health system in northwestern Syria, which is a stronghold of the rebels and jihadist groups and is beyond the regime ’s control. Read more: Through Bab al-Hawa, it's a painful return home for...
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