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Aysha is the wife of a constructor Aby Mohammad, has never known happiness and joy in her life as she is used to deprivation and poverty in the years of war where “we fast a day and eat on another” as she said. She had an opportunity to work in a humanitarian organization, where she told us it had been the life opportuinty for being paid good salary that can pull her family from poverty. However, her dreams faded away as the work place (Shinan) hospital had been targeted.
Shinan Hospital in Jabal Alzawey in Idlib countryside went out of service on Monday (17 April) as Russian raids targeted the hospital directly leaving wounded among the medical staff and workers there.
Aysha who is in her forties, did not managed to hide fear she felt before the patients in the hospitals who she was supposed to guide them and decrease their fear for being a psychologist.
With shaking sound for breaking down where she was exttemely nervious, she narrated to us the moments she had gone through: “Since the morning, Russian warplanes waged several raids with cluster bombs, I looked desperately to the doctor in the room who insisted on working, I said some prayers and complete my work asking Allah to protect us.
Idlib city citzens have noticed escalating the air strikes by Russian air force after targeting Alshayrat a military airport where the campaign got intensive since April; the citizens of the city know war is not over yet, and the reason was, as Syrians say, is that Bashar Assad is a person who sacrifies Syria and its people to remain in power”.
She stepped forward and then backward- she was trying to stand still, what happed is what everyone feared as the hospital was targeted by warplanes. It was something like doomsday according to what Aysha described. She said: “I rushed to help the nurses in lifting the patients.. women who were anesthetized while others were having operations, I did not feel my injury before the injuries of my colleaques of the medical staff”.
Aysha on the way back to her home in Idlib, could not hold her tears of grieve, after seven days of work, she returned broken hearted as the hospital turned out of service forcing her to stay at home waiting for new oppertonity.
With folded head and bloody hands, Aysha entered her house repeating optimistic words refusing to surrender to grieve, she said: ” The good honest people will rebuild the hospital.. and we will work together to save the citizens against opressors.. It is Syria the home of freedom and our ancestors’ homeland.. It is not Assad’s”.
Shinan Hospital is not the only hospital which becomes out of service, as many hospitals before went out of order becoming a witness for regime and its allies brutality in killing all aspects of life in the areas out of regime control.
By Bayan Alahmad
translated by Sabah Najem
Syrian Press Center
