The spread of insects and rodents inside Washokani camp in Hasaka countryside

Aya Abd al-Rahman spends awake hours of the night observing her children and protecting them from the approach of scorpions and rodents, which are abundant in Wachukani camp in the countryside of Al Hasaka for the displaced from Serekaneh/ Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad.

The camp is overcrowded with hundreds of families and the lack of means to preserve foodstuffs, in addition to the poor sanitation situation inside the camp, are the reasons for the spread of these animals, as Aya explains to Aso News Network.

She added that most of the families did not sleep to protect their children, fearing that the animals would bite them in light of the lack of necessary medicines in the medical points inside the camp.

The medical point of the Kurdish Red Crescent lacks medication and serum for bites and animal bites, although it receives bites on a daily basis and in particular, the bites of rats and scorpions, according to Wael Ahmed, a pediatrician and a worker at the Kurdish Red Crescent in the camp.

Ahmed indicates that they receive at least three cases per week, which are transferred to private hospitals in Al Hasaka for treatment, appealing to international organizations working in the region to provide medicines and vaccines for medical points in the camps for the displaced.

Washokani camp includes more than five thousand displaced people from the cities of Serekaneh / Ras Al-Ain and Tel Abyad fleeing the Turkish occupation of the two cities.