He can’t afford to pay for the surgery … “Uncle Hussain” loses his sight while he is waiting for help that will restore his sight

When the morning comes, “Hussein Oso” leaves his room inside the “Khashman Modern School” (which is considered a shelter in Hasakah) to the outside and sits with his wife “Hadiya Ibrahim”, spending time all day to spend their time, while they are displaced from Serekaneh / Ras al-Ain city live in a boarding school in Hasakah.

Hussein Oso complains about his fear that he will lose his sight completely, due to the inability to pay the costs of having surgery to treat his eyes.

Hussein eye’s retina has been damaged in the past, and as a result of displacement and poor current capabilities he is afraid to lose his sight completely, as looking good has become difficult for him.

Hussein Oso from Serekaneh (56 years old) was forcibly abandoned from his city, after Turkey occupied the peace spring process for Serekaneh in October last year 2019.

Osu lives with his family in a sheltering school, saying that he needs expensive surgical treatment in Damascus or outside Syria to be able to restore his eyesight.

He added that he used to own a house and farmland in Serekaneh, “My financial situation was good and I was at the beginning stage of treating the retina, but our forced migration made us leave everything and we lost, after our property was looted, our material conditions worsened, I no longer had the money and approached completely blindness.”

IDPs in the school gather around Oso and Hadiya, trying to alleviate the difficult conditions of the old man.

His wife, Hadiya Ibrahim, continues to accompany him, and next to him all the time, she tells Aso news network, “I cannot leave him, as I am now the eyes that he sees with them.”
And Hadiya confirms that her husband needs surgery in his eyes. “The doctors have told us that there is hope that he will have an operation, but that requires travel to Damascus or outside Syria.” She added, “We do not have the price of the cost of the operation, as it exceeds two million Syrian pounds except for the costs of medicine and travel, and this is difficult.”

All hope within “Hussein Oso” stands at the limits of meditation and the fear that he cannot regain his eyes, hoping for civil help or assistance by local or international organizations or self- administration.

Hamad Sami, a doctor who has been displaced from Serekaneh to Al-Hasakeh, who is a neighbor of Oso, says that Hussein needs surgery to restore his eyesight, as before. “We tried to communicate with international and local organizations working in the area to provide assistance to Hussein and there are people who responded and provided assistance but not enough”.

In the event that “Hussein” can travel to Damascus for treatment, he needs two and a half million, in order to be able to travel to Damascus or Beirut in Lebanon to perform the treatment and operation “but until now no one has taken care of that” and the doctor spoke.

*We, the Aso News Network, attempted to prepare a visual report on the case of “Hussein Oso”, but they were satisfied with agreeing to a written article for the network.