According to a charity, a mother and child from Syria who were twice pulled from their earthquake-damaged home are now recovering.
When part of Dima's Jindayris home collapsed due to last Monday's earthquake, she was seven months along in her pregnancy.
At a hospital in Afrin supported by the Syrian American Medical Society (Sams), the woman sustained minor injuries before giving birth to a boy named Adnan.
When they went back, the house had already completely collapsed three days prior.
Rescuers treated Dima for a critical lower limb injury while bringing Adnan back to the al-Shifa Hospital in Afrin. Adnan was critically ill and had severe jaundice and dehydration.
The infant was responding well to treatment, pediatrician Dr. Abdulkarim Hussein al-Ibrahim said in a WhatsApp message to the BBC on Monday.
"The state of Adnan. has drastically improved," he claimed. "We are only feeding him, with intravenous drips taking care of the rest of his needs. ".
Adnan was seen peacefully dozing in an incubator while wearing a drip on his wrist in the video that Sams released.
Dima, her husband Abdul Majid, and their other nine children now reside in a tent after Dima was once more released from the hospital. She has been making daily visits to Adnan's hospital in Afrin.
Because there was no other place for them to stay in Jindayris, one of the worst-hit towns in opposition-held northwest Syria, after she gave birth, her family was compelled to return to their partially destroyed home.
In addition, they have not received any other assistance since the earthquake, unlike thousands of other impacted people.
The majority of the 4.1 million residents of the region, who depend on humanitarian aid to survive, are women and children. The area is the final stronghold of jihadists and rebels who have been battling forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad for 12 years.
However, as of Sunday, only 52 lorries carrying aid from UN agencies had entered Idlib province through Bab al-Hawa, the only border crossing that the UN is permitted to use to deliver humanitarian aid.
The White Helmets' first responders operate in opposition-held areas, so the heavy machinery and other specialized equipment needed by them has not been included in the deliveries, which were scheduled prior to the earthquake but were delayed by damaged roads and other logistical issues.
Dr. Ibrahim claimed that there was a severe lack of the drugs, equipment, beds, and blankets required to treat the numerous injured people still being extricated from the wreckage.
He cautioned that "no hospital has the capacity to handle this large number of injuries.". "It's crowded everywhere. " .
A major concern for the medical relief organization, whose facilities in the area have assisted more than 2,000 earthquake victims, according to Dr. Basel Termanini, chairman of the Sams Foundation, is the lack of shelter and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services.
"We can treat the women after trauma or after giving birth, but they need to go back to a safe environment with the bare minimum of housing, food, and clean water," he told the BBC.
Due to scarce resources and the noticeably delayed aid arriving from the only lifeline of Bab al-Hawa crossing, this is regrettably generally lacking in northwestern Syria. ".
The UN and the international community were "quite guilty of poor planning and failed execution," according to Dr. Termanini.
Sams was presently collaborating with the White Helmets and the Syrian Forum, a group of nonprofit agencies aiding people in the area, to "fill in the gaps" in food and shelter. He added that they were working with the White Helmets to help people in the region.
"However, there are enormous needs, and the international community needs to act quickly to prevent a serious humanitarian crisis. ".
Since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey, more than 35,000 deaths are known to have occurred in Syria and Turkey.
According to the UN, 4,300 deaths and 7,600 injuries have been reported throughout north-western Syria, which is more than 800 higher than the total death toll that the Syrian government and the White Helmets published over the weekend.
The initial "rescue phase" following the disaster was "drawing to a close," UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told reporters on a Monday visit to the city of Aleppo, which is controlled by the government.
The humanitarian phase, which includes the immediate need to give these people shelter, psychosocial support, food, education, and a sense of the future, is now our responsibility, he said.
In addition, Mr. Griffiths stated that the UN hoped to send aid to opposition-held areas that were on the other side of the front lines from the government's territory, something that has infrequently occurred throughout the 12-year civil war in the nation.
According to the UN, since the earthquake, "cross-line" deliveries have been slowed down by the dominant jihadist coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The UN has been charged with "politicizing the emergency response," which HTS has denied and charged.
