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ACTNews, IDLIB,
SYRIA – Hundreds of IDPs in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib are suffering
from above-average
temperature that exceeds 40 degrees.
Dr. Ammar Rahhal
from the Ibn Sina Hospital in Idlib revealed that the high temperature affects
the health of the IDPs living in tents. Rahhal said many refugee children were
hospitalized due to being exposed to sunstroke after playing outside between 11
a.m. to 1 p.m.
“Tent protects
people neither from the heat of summer nor from the cold of winter. A day in a
tent is like a year,” said Yahya Uayyid, one of the IDPs.
The Uayyids were forcibly
displaced from their home in Aleppo and now settled in a camp in Idlib. His
three children have been constantly taken to the hospital for being affected by
the scorching heat.
Fatma Zein Ali, another
IDP who came from the southern countryside of Aleppo has also had her children
hospitalized due to the extreme temperature.
Syria has been
engulfed in a civil war since early 2011. Around half a million people have
been killed and more than 12 million have been displaced from their homes.[]
