‘Nobody cares about us’: Syrians stuck at Rukban camp decry lack of testing
Syrians in the Rukban camp near the Jordanian border hope the coronavirus does not reach their isolated area as they have no coronavirus test kits; they also cannot cross the border into Jordan for any other type of medical care unless they have taken such a test and have proven negative.
In a remote strip of land along the Jordan-Syria border just miles away from a US military base, thousands of trapped civilians are bracing for a coronavirus outbreak they fear will cripple their isolated community.
“It would be a disaster,” said Um Mohammed, a midwife at Rukban camp in southeastern Syria. “It would be the end of the people who are living in Rukban.”
Reached by phone, Um Mohammed requested Al-Monitor use a pseudonym for security reasons.
“We don’t have the right medicine or the appropriate place to quarantine the patients,” she said. “There is nothing we could offer to them.”
