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OUT OF EIGHT functioning hospitals in the ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo four have been damaged by bombing in the last four days – one twice.
International aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says that the bombing began last Friday when two hospitals in east Aleppo they support, amongst others, were damaged by continuous indiscriminate bombing. A blood bank was also damaged.
MSF supports eight hospitals in Aleppo city. It runs six medical facilities across northern Syria and supports more than 150 health centres and hospitals across the country, many of them in besieged areas.
Once Syria’s commercial powerhouse, Aleppo has been ripped apart by the country’s five-year civil war, which has killed more than 300,000 people and forced millions to flee their homes
Despite the damage, medical teams at the three facilities managed to continue their work.
On Saturday, a major trauma hospital was so severely damaged by bombing that it was forced to close. Two days later, as construction teams worked to repair the damage, the area was bombed again, killing a number of people and further damaging the hospital.
On Sunday, a surgical hospital was damaged by bombing, but remained open.
“The few remaining hospitals are collapsing under a flow of hundreds of wounded lying in agony on the floors of wards and corridors,” says Pablo Marco, MSF’s operations manager in the Middle East.
Backed by Russian warplanes, Syria’s army began a major military campaign to capture the eastern rebel-held part of Aleppo on 22 September.
The army is fighting on the city’s northern outskirts, inside the city centre, and on the southern edges near the Sheikh Saeed district.
Marco says that doctors are performing surgery without theatre space and called for an end to the bombing.
“Doctors are performing brain and abdominal surgeries to the victims of bombing in the floors of the emergency rooms, for lack of available operation theatres. Russia and Syria must stop this carnage now.”
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Very sad that someones live can go so wrong that no one has noticed them missing for so long. And such an awful way to go. Poor guy.
They have missed them they just didn’t know this is how they ended up :(
Terrible state of affairs, poor man, obviously homeless person so nobody missed him…profoundly sad, may he RIP.
Unless it was the home owner who may not have had any concerned family members, either way a truly sad passing in such a built up area surrounded by people yet so alone :(
There was a time when community existed, people knew and looked out for each other.
Long gone NorahB,There is still some of us left though.Good to see you think same as i do :)
God bless you and your family.
Rest in peace to the poor man :( truly heartbreaking to think he lay there.Deepest condolences to his family :(
Hard to believe its been there for nearly 4 years. Not one nosey so n so had a peep in. Strange
sad, yet ridiculous, why hasn’t anyone tried to contact that person? no neighbours or anything?
It was a derelict house so maybe a homeless person. Perhaps he was on the missing persons list? We don’t know yet, but whatever the circumstance it terrible sad that someone should die like this.
Even if he/she was homeless, no one should die like this, as you said, however someone should check such houses, well everyone’s clever after such loss.
Of course Joanna, in the ideal world that would happen. Maybe even in a small town, but in a city it’s easy to become lost, too easy I suppose.
We will all know to morrow.. V sad..
Am sure he is in heaven for the last 4 years
Yeah…heaven…after what must have been a virtual Hell on earth. Good luck with that Mags.
If he was a homeless person, has no other homeless person tried that house? Can a house be vacant for four years without anybody checking who owns it?
The Family will have done peace as they have gone through Hell…
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