Witnesses from Douma City: allegations of chemical attack are false – SANA

Witnesses from Douma city, in Damascus countryside, stressed that the alleged chemical incident in the city on April 7, 2018 was a fabricated play by terrorist organizations and their supporters to justify the attacks on Syria, noting that no deaths were recorded with these materials, and the cases that were photographed and published online do not prove the use of any chemicals.

During a press conference held on Thursday at the building of the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry, Dr. Hassan Eyon, an ambulance doctor at Douma Hospital said that information was published a day before the alleged incident that it was necessary to prepare for an event that will take place, which confirms the prior preparations for the fabricated play that had been filmed.

 What the terrorists announced about the presence of 800 cases who were affected by chemical substances is incorrect, as the number of people who went to the hospital on that day did not exceed 40, Dr. Eyon stated.

 Doctor Mumtaz al-Hanash, orthopedic specialist at Douma Hospital, said that the administration of Douma Hospital announced on the next day about the alleged incident that no cases or deaths from chemicals had been recorded.

“No cases were recorded among the paramedics who transferred the alleged cases to the hospital, and it is unreasonable for this to happen if chemicals were used,” Doctor Fatima Khanshour from Douma Hospital noted.

Sheikh Ratib Naji, Imam and preacher of a mosque in Douma said “We did not see with our own eyes any such cases, as they claimed, and we did not see any of those whom the terrorists claimed were dead, and when we demanded for delivering the cases , they assaulted us.