In a new report, MSF warned Syria’s health infrastructure “has been decimated”, with frequent aerial assaults and shelling of hospitals and clinics, in violation of worldwide law. The dead included patients.
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“We are afraid that the death toll might rise”, she said.
In a separate incident, missiles hit another hospital in the town of Marat Numan in Idlib province, in northwestern Syria, said the French president of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) charity, which was supporting the hospital.
“They assume the full consequences of the act because they did not consult with the Syrian government”, Jaafari told reporters.
People gather outside the ruins of the MSF hospital in the Idlib province. The attack left the local population of around 40,000 without access to medical services, said MSF mission chief Massimiliano Rebaudengo.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian warplanes targeted the makeshift hospital, destroying it and killing and wounding dozens.
The UN on Monday lashed out at a spate of reported attacks on medical facilities and schools in Syria, which killed almost 50 civilians, while the USA and Russian Federation continued to point fingers at each other.
The MSF spokeswoman said that she has no information about how many people were inside the hospital during the time of the attack.
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According to Delattre, the “deliberate” attacks and developments on the ground are “in many respects, the exact opposite” of commitments made in an agreement among global and regional powers signed last week in Munich, Germany, to work toward a temporary “cessation of hostilities”, as well as the Security Council’s December 18 resolution that endorsed a road map for peace process.
