The UN health agency is decrying an “unfathomable” situation for medical care in rebel-held parts of Syria’s largest city, pleading for a halt to the violence that has prevented aid and support from entering.
Dr. Rick Brennan, emergency risk director for the World Health Organization, says the security situation is too dangerous for outside medical personnel to enter rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
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Speaking Friday to reporters in Geneva, Brennan appeals for permission to evacuate the sick and injured. He says 846 people have been wounded, including 261 children, in the last couple of weeks.
He says fewer than 30 doctors doing work that’s “beyond heroic” are now in eastern Aleppo, where at least 250,000 people live.
Human rights advocates say airstrikes by Syria’s government and its Russian allies are believed to be behind much of the violence.
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