Humanitarian organizations to rehabilitate 6,500 musli have been subjected to psychological crises

Humanitarian organizations to rehabilitate 6,500 musli have been subjected to psychological crises


 Mosul / Reuters

Attacking the despair of the Iraqi student Ahmed Khalaf as he lay in a hospital after he lost his leg when he was hit by shrapnel from a rocket during his escape with his life from the organization of militants Daesh in Mosul. But the psychiatrist Saad Karam offers advice to a student who is 20 years old saying , "You're a strong person , O Ahmad. Do not be afraid." The doctor tells how left the family behind the house to escape from the war zone in western Mosul , three weeks ago , but the missile hit an area near Menhm.oerkd behind now in the south of Mosul , a hospital, but lost contact with his father and brother , who were seriously injured in the incident , which occurred on 19 March last . Lying father and brother in the high care in two different clinics in Erbil. All were between 320 thousand civilians have been displaced by the raging six months since the battle in the second largest city in Iraq and trying the Iraqi security forces , with US support , directed by elements of al - Daesh from the city , which dominated in 2014
and is trying behind accept forced doctors amputated his right leg above the knee. The young man is subject to psychiatric treatment of shock, which is unusual in Iraq, to help him adapt to new disability.
Khalaf said the doctor psychological that "psychological sessions helped me but attacking me ideas about what happened to me and my father and my brother. It comes again."
He added , "What know something about the future , but God willing , I try to go back to school and complete my studies and wish life back (to normal) again."
International humanitarian group Handicap and provide advice to the back and more than 5,300 others were displaced from Mosul. The organization also provides physical rehabilitation of some 1,200 people were seriously injured, including the amputation of limbs.
With the entry of the Battle of Mosul , seven months and the survival of some 400 thousand people trapped in the last urban stronghold of Daesh in Iraq look like this is just the beginning.
He said Marilyn Sioni , spokeswoman for Handicap "in the face of a crisis of this magnitude may find humanitarian organizations have difficulties in meeting all the needs."
Said Saad , who graduated from the University of Mosul before the invasion of the organization of the city " of Iraqi society has attached to what Xue (not welcome) psychological treatment. Always think that psychotherapy only mental cases particularly difficult."
Apart from suffering from trauma injuries Iraqis who underwent amputation operations suffer, to get artificial limbs. In a specialized center of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) run in Erbil patients need to wait two months to receive treatment.
The clinic in Erbil is trying to use more specialists to help treat 210 cases of Mosul and around Nineveh province.
One of those who are trained to resume walking Ahmed Ammar, a technician cars and father of five children, was in charge of a garage in western Mosul.
Said Ammar , a trained prosthetic leg in a hospital in Erbil , "opened the door of the garage and detonated an explosive device."
He says , "cut off the feet of the ankle and foot industrial immobilized but suffered gangrene and cut off my legs from the knee. Elements of al - Daesh are planted explosive device."

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