The Primary Healthcare Center managed by Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Al Sakhoor area of Syria’s Aleppo, which was bombed on Saturday. The hospital is now out of service that deprived thousands of civilians of much-needed medical assistance.
DOHA: The attack in Aleppo on Saturday put the Primary Healthcare Center managed by Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) in Al Sakhoor area out of service and deprived thousands of civilians of much-needed medical assistance.
Two patients were killed and eight injured due to approximately four bombs dropped from a helicopter on QRCS Primary Healthcare Center. These airstrikes have led to 50% damage of the medical centre which put the QRCS healthcare center out of service.
QRCS has condemned the attacks on Al Sakhoor hospital, a local ambulance and other medical facilities that are supported by international NGOs. It called upon the international community to intervene and put an end to such direct attacks on medical and health facilities in Syria.
Dr Hashem Darwish, Head of Health Programme at QRCS’s Mission in Turkey, said: “This direct targeting of the healthcare centre in Al Sakhoor area of Aleppo, which have killed and injured a number of patients who were visiting the centre, is a war crime and a violation of the Protocols of 1977 additional to the Geneva conventions of 1949 that recognises the importance of protecting the Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies, other authorised relief organisations, and neutral governments that provide humanitarian service in areas of conflict”.
QRCS’s healthcare centre was established in April, and was partially funded by Humanitarian Pooled Fund (HPF) to provide health care and general medical treatment to 250,000 civilians who live in Aleppo, according to UN reports.
