Libyans receiving medical care express gratitude to Qatar govt Publish Date: Wednesday,4 May, 2011, at 01:24 AM Doha Time
Some of the injured Libyans receiving treatment at the Hamad Hospital are seen during a press conference By Noimot Olayiwola Scores of seriously injured Libyans who have been brought to Doha to receive medical care at the Hamad Medical Corporation have expressed their gratitude to the Qatari government for the kind gesture. Some of the patients, who spoke to mediapersons, described Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as "a murderer and a merciless leader." According to them, wanton loss of innocent lives and properties was currently going on in Libya. One of them, Mahmoud Fareq, an ambulance volunteer, said he was injured on April 19 at Benghazi when his car was hit by a rocket. His left arm was fractured due to the incident. He claimed the tensions lasted four days and took the lives of some 100 people and seriously injured another 150. Fareq was initially receiving treatment in Libya before he was moved to Qatar because of the degree of his injuries. Another victim, Fathi al-Nuais, who was a volunteer surgeon, said he suffered serious injuries including fractured legs when government troops attacked him. He came to Qatar due to the overwhelming situation in major hospitals across Benghazi. "There are four major hospitals in Benghazi with each having a bed capacity of 1,200 and all of them are full at the moment," he said. Al-Nuais' treatment in Qatar will end by May 12. Ahmad Ali al-Mughiri, also an ambulance worker, was hit by rockets fired by pro-Gaddafi soldiers at Gabra area of Libya when he was inside the ambulance. He said that there were more deaths than what the government has been claiming while maintaining that the situation in Libya has reached a catastrophic level. "Government is hiding the facts about the situation, as in Tripoli alone, the number of deaths so far is huge. Also, we found that the government is making use of mercenaries to kill its own people," he said. Mutawil Yunus, a maritime expert, said many seriously injured Libyans have been evacuated from the country in a bid to receive treatments in Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Tunisia because of the dire situation in the country. While describing how he was injured, he said: "One member of the pro-Gaddafi troops came into the hospital where I was also present pretending to be injured and started shooting sporadically," he recalled. He added that many Libyans are presently living in perpetual fear as there was no security for life and property due to the lawlessness of the soldiers and Gaddafi's dictatorship. Another victim, Mohamed said he and three others got caught in a rocket attack by Gaddafi's soldiers while working on his farm in Ras al-Nuf. While Mohamed lost one of his legs due to the attack, the other three were killed on the spot. "Gaddafi's soldiers are using all kinds of weapons to attack innocent people like us, they have killed too many people already," he said. However, all the patients commended Qatari government for their support in bringing them to Qatar for the treatment, and termed it as "superb healthcare services." Back to Article Homepage ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
