Attacks on health care in Syria take ‘catastrophic` toll: IRC
(WorldNews Health)

As Syria marks nearly 10 years since the beginning of its bloody conflict, a new report shows the widespread and devastating impact a decade of fighting has had on health care facilities, health workers and on civilians. The report, published on Wednesday by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and a number of its Syrian partner organisations, highlights the ways in which the war has turned hospitals from places of shelter to danger zones until this day. Chilling testimonies from more than 300 people – including 74 health workers – in 13 sub-districts of the Aleppo and Idlib governorates give a deeper insight into what life is like for Syrians living under conflict. The war, now widely...