Two Aleppo hospitals bombed out of service in 'catastrophic' airstrikes

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Two Aleppo hospitals bombed out of service in 'catastrophic' airstrikes

Doctors say they sheltered in basement before emerging to treat
wounded amid ‘unprecedented’ assault on Syrian city

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut
Wednesday 28 September 2016 11.04 BST

The two largest hospitals in besieged eastern Aleppo have been put out of service in airstrikes overnight and on Wednesday morning, the latest in a devastating week-long bombing campaign that has claimed hundreds of lives.

The M2 and M10 hospitals, codenames used by local doctors to obscure the locations of the facilities, were hit at about 4am and then again at around 10am in what one health official described as a bombing campaign that was “catastrophic and unprecedented in modern history”.

“If the hospital falls on top of us come pull us out from under the rubble but do not take pictures,” said Bara’a, a nurse at the M2, in a message from the shelter to an online discussion group of journalists and doctors in besieged eastern Aleppo. “Please don’t take pictures, we won’t gain anything from it and our dignity is too precious.”

On Wednesday morning, doctors at the M2 hospital said they had sought shelter from shelling in the hospital’s basement, and emerged to treat the wounded in the hospital once the bombing had ceased.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/28/aleppo-two-hospitals-bombed-out-of-service-syria-airstrikes

[JayhawkSD]

1. That's a lot of hospitals.

San Diego only has twenty three hospitals, and Allepo has now had, I've lost count, but I believe it's about sixty three hospitals bombed into oblivion. Awesome.