jimnyc
11-16-2015, 07:42 PM
Looks like Russia is great at killing medical staff and medical facilities.
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Hatay and Reyhanli, Turkey When it comes to gauging the impact of the Russian intervention in Syria, health workers simply point to the high-stress workdays at Bab Al-Hawa Hospital.
The emergency services facility in northern Syria has been spared by Russian warplanes. But it carried out 12,000 consultations and more than 1,300 operations in October, twice its monthly summer average. The influx came in the wake of attacks on hospitals and clinics in rebel-held areas that humanitarian and medical workers blame on Moscow.
We are now under greater pressure, says Amer al-Fajj, who handles public relations at the hospital, which sits near the border with Turkey. We have a constant stream of casualties. It never stops. All the casualties from Aleppo are coming here.
Attacks on medical facilities are hardly unusual in the context of the Syrian conflict as of the end of September, government forces were responsible for 283 out of 313 such attacks, according to Physicians for Human Rights. These have killed nearly 700 medical personnel, pushed doctors to operate in basements, and spurred the construction of underground hospitals.
But the extent to which Russia appears to have targeted hospitals and the force with which it has struck has severely complicated relief efforts. One doctor and three first responders have been killed in the escalated bombing, according to the Violations Documentation Center in Syria, a monitoring group. The hospital targeting has also hastened the exodus of Syrian medical workers and made civilian life in rebel-held areas even less bearable, according to relief workers.
The active engagement of Russia in the conflict and specifically its attacks on the health care infrastructure is exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis, says Widney Brown, programs director at Physicians for Human Rights. It is inexplicable why Russia would claim it is attacking ISIS, but instead attack hospitals and clinics. All these attacks must stop.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/1113/Are-Russian-air-strikes-targeting-hospitals-in-Syria
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Hatay and Reyhanli, Turkey When it comes to gauging the impact of the Russian intervention in Syria, health workers simply point to the high-stress workdays at Bab Al-Hawa Hospital.
The emergency services facility in northern Syria has been spared by Russian warplanes. But it carried out 12,000 consultations and more than 1,300 operations in October, twice its monthly summer average. The influx came in the wake of attacks on hospitals and clinics in rebel-held areas that humanitarian and medical workers blame on Moscow.
We are now under greater pressure, says Amer al-Fajj, who handles public relations at the hospital, which sits near the border with Turkey. We have a constant stream of casualties. It never stops. All the casualties from Aleppo are coming here.
Attacks on medical facilities are hardly unusual in the context of the Syrian conflict as of the end of September, government forces were responsible for 283 out of 313 such attacks, according to Physicians for Human Rights. These have killed nearly 700 medical personnel, pushed doctors to operate in basements, and spurred the construction of underground hospitals.
But the extent to which Russia appears to have targeted hospitals and the force with which it has struck has severely complicated relief efforts. One doctor and three first responders have been killed in the escalated bombing, according to the Violations Documentation Center in Syria, a monitoring group. The hospital targeting has also hastened the exodus of Syrian medical workers and made civilian life in rebel-held areas even less bearable, according to relief workers.
The active engagement of Russia in the conflict and specifically its attacks on the health care infrastructure is exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis, says Widney Brown, programs director at Physicians for Human Rights. It is inexplicable why Russia would claim it is attacking ISIS, but instead attack hospitals and clinics. All these attacks must stop.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/1113/Are-Russian-air-strikes-targeting-hospitals-in-Syria