The “Complementary Emergency Social Safety Net (C-ESSN)” Project, financed by the European Union, co-implemented by the Ministry of Family and Social Services through KIZILAYKART, means support, hope, and even healing for the most vulnerable migrants who took refuge in our country. Adnan Zamat, who lives with his wife in an apartment in Keçiören, Ankara, explained that he found the cause of the health problems he had been experiencing since his childhood in his home country Iraq, in Turkey, where they had fled to Turkey due to the violence and instability, and that he was able to continue his treatment with the help of the C-ESSN.
Welcoming us in his home furnished with the belongings given by their neighbors, Adnan Zamat said, “When the violence started in Musul, in 2014, my wife and I left our house, our work, and our car behind us and fled to Turkey from Syria in one day. I have been sick since I knew myself, my brother and my family were supporting our financial needs. I also accepted my illness since there is no treatment be found. It turned out that on that day, while I was running to save my life with only one suitcase in my hand, I would really find the cure for my illness in Turkey,” he says.
Adnan Zamat stated that they first came to Şanlıurfa with his wife Najat after crossing the Turkish border, but later they went to Samsun. “We have no children. At that time, I could not benefit from the KIZILAYKART Programme because I did not know the cause of my illness. We came to this city because they said, ‘You can get treatment in Ankara,’ and we saw how correct the advice was,” he tells about those days.
As a result of the analyses made in Ankara, Adnan Bey, who learned that he suffered from “kidney/renal failure”, was given a 40 percent disability report. Explaining that his doctors prescribe urinary catheter treatment for his incurable disease, which needs to be changed six times a day, Nejat expresses his feelings as follows:
“I am grateful to Turkish doctors. I have regained my health at least enough to do my own care and small jobs with the right diagnosis and treatment recommendations. However, you can see it in pharmacies, the urinary catheter prices are extremely expensive, and they are constantly increasing. Thanks to the C-ESSN assistance, I can pay my monthly urinary catheter needs. May Allah be pleased with those who provided and delivered this aid that I received with KIZILAYKART.”
The C-ESSN Project, plays an important role in enhancing the coping mechanisms of most vulnerable foreigners living in Turkey, and enables us to lend a helping hand to more than 350 thousand thousand recipients, like Adnan Bey and Najat Hanım, giving hope to their lives.
