PHR | ”Aleppo Region Suffers Worst Week of Hospital Attacks Since Syrian Conflict Began”
[vc_row][vc_column][helpme_fancy_text highlight_color=”#ffffff” font_family=”none” align=”justify”] (PHR) All six facilities hit between July 23 and July 31 were major hospitals in Aleppo governorate, including a referral hospital just outside opposition-held eastern Aleppo and a pediatric clinic inside the city where four infants died after their oxygen supply was cut. Since the beginning of the conflict, PHR has […]
Middle East Eye | ”Four babies die in attack on Aleppo’s ‘last children’s hospital”
[vc_row][vc_column][helpme_fancy_text highlight_color=”#ffffff” font_family=”none” align=”justify”] (MEE) Four new-born babies were killed after a recent triple air strike hit besieged Aleppo’s last children’s hospital, Middle East Eye can reveal. The deaths were particularly devastating for the staff at the hospital, which is run by a group of Syrian doctors, the Independent Doctors Association, and backed by the […]
Aleppo under siege: Statement by 63 Syrian NGOs
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AFP | ”Four hospitals hit by air raids in Syria’s Aleppo: doctors”
[vc_row][vc_column][helpme_fancy_text highlight_color=”#ffffff” font_family=”none” align=”justify”] (AFP) The hospitals and a blood bank that was also hit are in the Al-Shaar neighbourhood of Syria’s second city, said the Independent Doctors Association, a group that supports clinics in Aleppo. It said a two-day-old baby was killed in the children’s hospital early Sunday, the second raid on the same facility in […]
Al Jazeera | ”Syria’s war: Women risk death to give birth in Aleppo”
[vc_row][vc_column][helpme_fancy_text highlight_color=”#ffffff” font_family=”none” align=”justify”] (Aljazeera) The aerial attacks across rebel-held Aleppo have decimated the obstetric care infrastructure that was once available to pregnant women in Syria. Al-Zahra Hospital, the last remaining obstetric clinic in Aleppo, and the Children’s Hospital are both supported by the Independent Doctors Association, a Syrian medical NGO based in Gaziantep that […]
BBC Outlook | ”Aleppo Doctor: It Could Have Been Me”
[vc_row][vc_column][helpme_fancy_text highlight_color=”#ffffff” font_family=”none” align=”justify”] (BBC) In the midst of the Syrian war, Dr Hatem is a paediatrician working in the rebel-held part of the city of Aleppo. He describes a trip he made to Turkey in April that had agonising repercussions. Full radio program below: [/helpme_fancy_text][vc_single_image image=”4260″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040kt4y”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
ISIS Advance Threatening Camps and Operations
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Blog | Dr. Samir Moussa’s clinics in the camps
My job is to manage IDA’s health clinics in Northern Aleppo. I leave my home in Kilis in Turkey at 7:30 am and cross the border into Syria. I arrive at my workplace – the IDP camps – an hour later, and throughout the day I move from camp to camp to follow up on the medical cases. I […]
Blog | The long road to Aleppo
It’s 1pm, and a truckload of supplies enters from Turkey into the hands of our logistics team waiting at the other side of the Bab Al Hawa crossing point. It’s a big day – medical equipment, like incubator parts, are about to be delivered to the last Children’s Hospital in Aleppo. We hit the road, […]
The bombing of Al Quds and the failed ceasefire
As doctors working on the frontlines of the war in Aleppo, we viewed the cessation of hostilities that was brokered in February with scepticism. Over the last week, our worst fears were driven home in the most horrific circumstances. The city is bleeding. On Wednesday, Syrian or Russian jets bombed the Al Quds hospital in […]
