November 10, 2011
For
over a month, without reporting by all the world news media, who have
failed with the exception of this news agency, over one hundred thousand
people in a Libyan African city have been besieged, water, food and
electricity supply cut off, hospitals bombed, medical supplies
blockaded, by Europe and the United States
Independent reporter Morris Herman has received a letter from someone quite distressed about the situation in Sirte, saying:
"The situation in Sirte is unbearable, the worst ever. The hospital is destroyed and out of service and there are conflicting reports that the NATO-rebels took it. There is a clinic but there are no doctors and no medical supplies. It is now run by a medical student, a dentist and two volunteers. They are doing their best, but what can they really do? They lost two patients on Sunday because they needed an operation but it could not be done, and there are seven patients at the clinic in a very bad condition and situation.
This is an appeal to all of us to do what we can.
What we can do is make a telephone call (see phone numbers in the video).
Call Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross to do something before it
is too late. They need to be informed that there is an ability to
coordinate to get into Sirte.
Tell the Red Cross to contact libya@arraitv.sy
They will organize people in Sirte to allow the aid to come in. That
is my appeal to all of us to make one phone call, to call the Red Cross
or the Doctors Without Borders and to get them to create aid for Sirte.
The whole world is watching or not watching, the country is being bombed
from the sky, bombed by the rebels day and night. Libya has done no
harm to anyone and we're all complicit if we don't do something."
Mr Steven Anderson from ICRC Media and Public Relations North West
Africa gives a rough outline on the situation in the Sirte hospital:
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