Monday, May 2nd 2016
Al-Quds Hospital in the Sukari neigbourhood of Aleppo was hit by an air strike on Saturday.
Two doctors, three nurses and a dentist died during the attack and left the city with a maximum of 2-3 months worth of medical supplies.
The hospital backed by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was helping around 5,000 patients a day with its 8 doctors and 28 nurses.
The last pediatrician in the city was killed in the attack.
Now, only 25 doctors are left to treat a city populated by 250,000.
The city is now the main battle ground in the Syrian conflict.
The Syrian regime along with its Russian counterparts have carried out numerous air attacks on civilians.
They’ve mainly targeted hospitals, clinics, water supplies and civilian households without discrimination.
People of Syria’s second largest city have been calling for help, but no one has come to their aid as of yet.
Most residents have fled to neighbouring Turkey, but those who remain, live in fear in their own homes.
Hospitals are among the most common target of regime forces.
Doctors, nurses, patients and civilians may lose their lives at any given time.
As the death toll continues to rise, hope to end the five-year-old war is fading away.
The Russian-back regime killed at least 250 civilians in last week’s attacks.
CEASEFIRE
Partial ceasefire has come into effect in most parts of Syria, but the regime has excluded Aleppo.
The US is asking for Russia’s cooperation to renew the cessation of hostility deals in the whole of Syria.
Aleppo was initially left out of a deal to reinforce a February 27 truce between the government and non-jihadist rebels.
The freeze in fighting, announced on Friday, was applied to battlefronts in the coastal province of Latakia and Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.
The head of Moscow’s coordination centre in Syria said on Sunday that talks, which will include Aleppo, had begun.
Fresh air strikes pounded Aleppo early last Monday.
Over the past week, hundreds of civilians were killed by ground fighting in and around the city.
Several neighbourhoods, including the heavily populated Bustan al-Qasr district, were hit.
It’s unclear if Monday’s raids on a rebel-controlled area was carried out by Syrian or Russian jets.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Geneva, Switzerland for talks with other dignitaries to try and revive the first major ceasefire of the war.
This ceasfire was initially put into place in February with US and Russian backing, but has since collapsed. / trtworld and agencies/
