The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has warned that the health condition of cancer-stricken prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid has entered a very dangerous stage and is rapidly worsening.
Lawyer Kareem Ajwa from the commission stated on Wednesday that the cancer cells spread widely throughout Abu Hamid’s body damaging his left lung completely.
Mohamed Abu Hamid who is in the hospital with his brother as a caregiver told lawyer Ajwa that Nasser has growing fluids in his lungs and almost lost the ability to move all his limbs.
The lawyer also quoted the brother as saying that Nasser is confined to his bed in the hospital with an oxygen cylinder attached to him as a result of his suffering from hypersomnia and that he also suffers from a rapid heartbeat a severe decrease in blood and weight and total loss of appetite.
Mohamed added that the tumor on the left side of his brother’s chest can be seen clearly as a swelling affirming that it became difficult to provide him with medical treatment or any type of painkillers as he reached such a critical stage.
He appealed to international Arab and local human rights organizations to urgently intervene and work on having his brother released before his death.
In a related context the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that 60-year-old prisoner Waleed Abu Daqqa suffers from leukemia.
Following his complaint of serious health issues prisoner Abu Daqqa was transferred recently from Ashkelon jail to Barzilai Hospital where medical tests confirmed his suffering from leukemia.
Abu Daqqa had already suffered from health issues in his blood about two years ago but his condition was not diagnosed as blood cancer at the time and as a result of his jailers’ reluctance to allow him to undergo periodic blood tests since then his health suffering has escalated.
