Bahrain Mirror- Exclusive: An old lady from Diraz experienced a very difficult situation due to the security siege on Diraz that has been imposed since about 200 days.

The old lady underwent eyes surgery in Salmaniya Medical Complex and the hospital decided to drive her home through an ambulance because she is a woman with no breadwinner and only has one sister who accompanied her to the hospital and because the two ladies don't even have a car.

When arriving to one of the deployed checkpoints at Diraz's entrances, the security forces did not allow the ambulance to enter the village. All the attempts to convince the forces to allow the ambulance drive the lady to her house were in vain, despite that they were told that the lady is old and sick and can't walk from the checkpoint to her house.

After failing to convince the forces at the checkpoint to enter the village, the ambulance headed to Al-Budai health center where they put the lady along with her sister.

Due to the lady's critical health situation, one of Diraz residents agreed to drive the lady and her sister home after she finishes her work in Budai health center. Thus, the old lady had to wait for hours to reach home after her surgery.

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