Jamila and her companions were thrown by war to the fate of “a nursing home”

Aso- Aliya Mohammed

“Jamila Mohammed (pseudonym) sits in a small hall, with her miserable face leaning with her thin body on a wall belonging to a nursing home in the city of Rumailan. She looks at the horizon; her reflections speak of loneliness, and longing for the parents.

Jamila Mohammed, who is in her eighties, no longer has the ability to talk to anyone, or communicate directly with those around her, since her four children are out of the country, taking the migration route. It is two years since she lives in a nursing home in the city of Rumailan.

The Syrian war saw the displacement of many people and the oneness of many elderly men and women.

Two old women at Jamila’s age live with her in an elderly home without men, which is supervised by the Women’s Commission of Al Jazira Region. In the corridor leading to their room, a nanny helps Jamila get up because she can no longer stand without help. Three nannies supervise the three elderly women and take care of them.

Social supervisor Nazi Allawi provides moral support for older women and helps supervisors to make the older women overcome their suffering.

Allawi tells Aso News Network that the house was opened in 2015 in Qamishlo / Al Qamishli, but due to poor basic services, whether electricity, water or others, the house was moved in 2018 to Rumailan.

Each elderly woman in the home has a different story, while they are unaccompanied. They were accepted to meet the conditions required by the care home, where older women who do not have caregivers are required.
Nazi Allawi says that “many of the cases that have reached the home have been rejected because they have families. “We have allocated the house to women who are most in need of relatives.

The idea of a nursing home to support the elderly has a negative view of the community, but from the perspective of “Nazi Allawi” the home is a positive thing for families, who cannot support the elderly, so to have an elderly care at such homes is the most appropriate solution. ”

What attracted the most attention while sitting in the elderly room, is the emaciation of Jamila’s body and grief manifested on the features covered by many wrinkles, and despite the care of her and her friends, but the heartbreak and longing for the family does not separate them, and “ Nazi Allawi” confirmed this feeling about them to for Aso News Network.

The Elderly House in Rumailan is the only one in Al Jazira region to provide care and support for older women.

Note: The names were concealed by the desire of older women who rejected a visual report and the network prepared a written report about them.

* The photo is from the internet