The aftermath of an attack on one of the key surgical hospitals in east Aleppo during airstrikes on 17 November 2016. The damage was so extensive that the hospital was forced out of service immediately. The hospital had an emergency room, an intensive care unit and a number of operating theatres providing orthopaedic and general surgery.
Access to healthcare in east Aleppo has now become next to non-existent for a population of more than 250,000 people who desperately need it. They have been trapped under siege for over four months. Since the airstrikes resumed on the 15 November, heavy bombings and ground clashes have left hospitals utterly destroyed.
MSF strongly condemns all attacks on civilians and breaches of international humanitarian law perpetrated by all warring parties in Syria.
