One Medical Mistake.. The Result A Wheelchair

It has been six years and war is still getting intensive and expanding to cover all around the country. This war replaced the safe houses with camps by borders. It is no longer the right man in the right place; so that if a person suffers from a health issue, one has to work hard on finding a trust worthy doctor or one has to cross the borders to be treated by specialists.
This what Doua’a (aged 23 years) did; she crossed the borders because she had to had a surgery considering there is no potentials to carry it in liberated areas; and that it is impossible to go to regime held areas. Here she chose Turkey to go for treatment.
She was not the first; many others had gone there for treatment where the data of the Turkish Health Ministry reveal that it had offered the Syrians up to 15 million medical services.
Specialized studies regarding this issue show that doctors in Turkey are considered to be of average level in proficiency in comparison with doctors in Syria.
In highlighting one of the cases which Turkish doctors dealt with them; Doua’a has been suffering from for 10 years scoliosis symptoms (is a medical condition in which a person’s spine has a sideways curve) which increase and develop over years for ignoring this problem amid circumstances of missing the suitable cure in Syria. That is why after years it becomes a must for a surgery due to its complications interfering with breathing as pressing on the lungs movement; so threatening her life.
She entered the operation room with promises of success; however, what happened there is that doctors while the surgery and fixing the back bone, they harmed the spine as fixing plates did not work so the doctors were forced to remove them and sending out the patient outside the hospital for physical treatment to rehabilitate her as paralyzed patient after she was able to walk. Here she is now accompanied by her mom on a wheelchair and a urine bag.
She said: “May Allah take my revenge from them, they promised that she be better.. but she came out paralyzed. They said they can do anything to her right now and she is need of physical treatment, where they can do the operation again if she walked again”, she added:” have no hope after all what has happened to me”.
Doua’a is going through great grieve and pain as her eyes most of the time filled with tears. Now Doua’a is attending the physical treatment center on daily basis to have the treatment. She has two sessions a day from the morning till midday.
Certainly she is accompanied by her mother for on a wheelchair and in need of help to move; her mother push her daughter’s wheelchair heartbroken feeling her daughter missed the spark of hope to regain her normal life and youth to be surrounded with depress.
By Yara Tamer
Translated by Sabah Najem
Syrian press center