Why does the British government send officials to supervise and doctors to take care of medical care?
China Net, December 23 According to a report on the British "Guardian" website on December 21, the British medical support team left the UK this weekend and went to Syria, not because of Dr. Abbas Cohen's death last week. Aid ceases due to death.
On Saturday, Abbas Cohen's body was transported to Lebanon by the Red Cross and handed over to the British Embassy. Meanwhile, a convoy of forty ambulances carrying medical volunteers and supplies is heading to the war-torn country for an eight-day aid operation.
Dr. Zulfilka from Manchester said: "We are very sad to lose Dr. Askorn. But hundreds of people die every day in Syria and too many doctors and medical staff are needed. Help."
"People keep asking us why we are here, but why not? Although the work of British charities is only a drop in the bucket, I would rather be a part of it than sit on the sidelines. The timing of Dr. Bascon's death was clearly well thought out by those in power, as they knew that the holidays would mean the arrival of a medical aid convoy."
"We are minimizing the risk. We don't want anyone to. Death, but the need for medical assistance is huge. I followed another medical convoy to carry out rescue work in Aleppo (a city in Syria). At that time, there were 2,000 doctors there, but now there are only 35 left."
Abbas Cohen is a surgeon at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital in the UK. Since the conflict broke out in March 2011, he, like many medical workers from the UK, has frequently traveled in and out of Syria. Unfortunately, he was captured by the Syrian authorities and tortured for nearly a year.
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Mekdad said that 32-year-old Cohen committed suicide in the interrogation room. But the statement was questioned by the British government, and Cohen's brother Nawaz also accused the Assad regime, calling the statement "nonsense."
Councillor Galloway said: "It is not convincing that his father committed suicide four days before he was to be released. We need an explanation."
Saturday, another A doctor who asked not to be named told the Observer that this was his fifth trip to Syria. “My wife is very sad, but we can’t just watch the situation in Syria on TV and remain indifferent. We don’t tell our children that I am in Syria,” he said. What to do, as you can see, the situation here is very bad, and people are particularly miserable.”
The weather forecast says that this year will be the coldest winter in Syria in the past century, with more than four million people in the country. Displaced, an estimated two million people have fled to neighboring countries. There are also reports that at least six children and many elderly people have frozen to death.
British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said she would lobby the coalition government to respond to the UN Human Rights Commission’s call to allow Syrian refugees to enter the UK. "It is our moral obligation to lend a helping hand in the humanitarian crisis in Syria. The UK cannot abandon those who are the most vulnerable and need help."
Labor MP Chuka said that in this matter In terms of handling, he felt the frustration of Abbas Cohen's family and had asked Foreign Secretary William Hague to express condolences to them. The Foreign Office insists it has tried hard to get Abbas Cohen to be released by the Syrian authorities but has been "constantly ignored".