Large displacement waves included, among others, medical and paramedical staff working in the city's general hospital where only a surgery specialist Dr. Kamel with a number of women volunteers who have previously received training courses in nursing.
Although everyone in the city of Ubari may be hurt by either a stray bullet or a random shell, what deepens the tragedy of the population in the recent period is the increasing incidence of typhoid fever and the bites of poisonous scorpions. The hospital and the health clinic of the project host daily many women with their children. Most of them complain of scorpion bites and an allergy and a fever whose origins and causes are still un known.
Mariem Ahmed who came to diagnose the reasons of the high fever of her son Mohamed says: "My son has not slept for two days and the temperature was very high since even after taking the medication and painkillers." It is one of the many cases among many cases that come to the hospital for treatment daily according to Dr Abdul Salam Mohamed, a surgeon who is working as a general practitioner at the project's clinic, who confirmed that 60% percent of the total cases are infected with typhoid fever.
Amid the ignorance of the reasons and under the severe shortage of antibiotics for the treatment of fever, the seriousness of this disease is increasing, and it coincides, according to the same source, with the spread of some types of allergies which may be caused by the residues of the rocket emissions that are falling at all times on the city.
On the other hand, Aisha Elias, one of the volunteers working in the department of micro surgery at the Ubari general hospital, said:" it is known that scorpions and toxic insects abound in summer and in particular, in desert areas which require special preparations by the provision of vaccines which shortages can cause the death of a number of children we are unable to provide them anything.. "
The official representative spoke about the external pharmacy at Ubari General Hospital and on the poor health conditions and severe shortages of antibiotics for children and some medicines for colds, chest allergies, scorpion vaccines and other medicines for skin diseases, lotions and surgical instruments, calling to the Ministry of Health and the Government for urgent supplies and provisions of all the shortages needed by the Ubari General Hospital.
The conflict made the Ubari oasis in the south of Libya become isolated from the outside world as civilians became like refugees who have no supplies or aid, which are almost non-existing in many cases. The situation has increasingly worsened when the hospital has been unable to operate due to the proliferation of barriers and checkpoints alongside the only road that connects Ubari to the coastal areas in the north of the country, which reduces the flow and the access of the scare medical supplies which barely meet the needs of the medical staff.
The country has slid into a full-scale war since the uprising in 2011 which ended with the help of a foreign military intervention to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled the country for a long time. Libya did not know stability and entered into what looks like a civil war between tribes and militias reflected here by the small scale conflict between the tribes of the Tuareg and Tebou inside Ubari and in the surrounding areas where sporadic clashes break out in residential suburbs, and up to the Mount Tienda overlooking the city, parts of which have become no-go zones for civilians.