Three other hospitals were also targeted during airstrikes the same day. As many as 300,000 civilians living in the city must now live without access to immediate medical treatment, according to the article.
According to the international aid group Union of Medical Care and Relief, there have been roughly 545 attacks on 250 medical facilities throughout the country since March 2011.
To avoid being targeted, most medical facilities moved underground, operating basement clinics to avoid the airstrikes, according to the article.
“That’s the plan for now — moving whatever is left, from beds to oxygen tanks, to another basement and start again,” said Ahmed, a Pittsburgh-based physician who left before the war. He asked NPR to use only his first name to identify him. If that new location gets bombed, “you move to another place — that is the attitude of the people there,” he told NPR.
