Um-Yahya (41 years), displaced from Hajira area, used to receive insulin from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Medical Center in Jaramana monthly. “I was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 24. I was a shocked then, but my doctor helped me to fight it through diet and medicine, thank God after that I have had two kids”.
50 patients with diabetes visit the Medical Center which is supported by IFRC in Jaramana every day, This number constitutes half of the beneficiaries from the internal clinics according to the director of the center, while every month 1800 people get antidiabetic medicines and insulin from this center since the beginning of 2017.