A medic inspects the damage at Raqqa national hospital, hit by what activists said was a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province, eastern Syria June 20, 2013.(Reuters / Nour Fourat)
Syria: More Than Half Of Hospitals Destroyed Or Damaged -- The Telegraph
Syria's medical infrastructure is on the "brink of collapse", 50 leading health care experts have warned, with more than half of the country's hospitals already destroyed or damaged in the civil war.
Medical experts, including the chiefs of major international aid agencies and three Nobel Prize winners, made a heartfelt appeal urging all combatants in Syria to spare hospitals and clinics and to allow doctors and nurses to operate freely, in what they called "the worst humanitarian crises since the end of the Cold War".
"Systematic assaults on medical professionals, facilities and patients are breaking Syria's health-care system and making it nearly impossible for civilians to receive essential medical services," they said in an open letter published by The Lancet.
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More News On The Destruction of The Health Care System In Syria
Report: Half of Syria's Hospitals Destroyed or Damaged -- Arutz Sheva
War brings medical system to 'brink of collapse' -- Independent.ie
Health care in Syria is "hell on earth" - doctors' report -- Reuters
Let us treat patients in Syria: doctors raise alarm -- Sydney Morning Herald
‘War crimes against healthcare’: Syrian govt, rebels deliberately target hospitals – UN report -- RT
U.N. Reports Syria Uses Hospital Attacks as a ‘Weapon of War’ -- New York Times
UN: Syria Attacking Hospitals as 'Weapon of War' -- Voice of America/Reuters
Syria targets hospitals, denies healthcare as 'weapon of war': U.N. -- Reuters
U.N.: Syrian forces attacking hospitals -- UPI
Nobel laureates urge end to Syria hospital attacks, say system is on the ‘brink of collapse’ -- Raw Story/AFP
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