Report on the conditions of makeshift clinics in Homs

Take him to the makeshift clinic There's no bullets or martyrs shells that are stray As they all used to target things and people especially women and children Thus there's no refuge for the wounded and patients save for the makeshift clinics After the government hospitals have turned into areas from which the regime seeks people for detentio Many houses in the rising up areas have turned into makeshift clinics with simple equipment and volunteering staff To try and rescue all the patients that flood into the makeshift clinics According to Dr. Abu al-Beshr, responsible for the makeshift clinic in Old Homs The cases in which the patients survive are not above 40% of the total of patients coming into the makeshift clinic We have severe conditions that make it extremely difficult to treat patients First, difficulties in blood transfusion and second, difficulties in sterlisation The place is not prepared sufficiantly for sterlising and we are forced to do sterlise in primitive techniques There's not even electricity, communication or water We are forced to provide makeshift techniques This is a chest drainage machine This is a machine that is designed using plastic and can not be used again once used, it has to be thrown away after the first time it was used However due to the circumstances, we are forced to use it again after sterlising it This projects danger to the patients however we have no choice as it is the only way to rescue the patient's life The activists are also suffering in trying to insure the reception of drugs from those who donate them However it is even more difficult to smuggle them through the security check-in points As the regime besieges the supply of medicine more than the supply of weapons The regime has denied the humanitarian organisations such as the Red Cross from reaching to the stricken and afflicted cities or even supplying them with food and medicine therefore most of the affected are women and children Rahaf is a child we met who's been affected by shrapnel in front of her house The makeshift clinics are now continuously being targeted by the regime Many of them have been targeted by mortar shells and tanks and after filming this video, the activists have informed us that the makeshift clinic in which we filmed has been shelled A volunteer: there's no one left of our staff except for a dentist, carpenter and me, an accountant There's no medical experience, we have been working here for only one month and few weeks Despite of the hardships the activists face, they are still determined to work to save the lives of the affected However, who's going to rescue those activists once they are targeted?