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Friend: A hospital co-managed by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating critically injured patients after an airstrike in Idlib, Syria yesterday. According to local news reports, 75 people were killed and 135 were injured in the attack.
This is the third time in two weeks that hospitals in Idlib co-managed by MSF have received casualties from airstrikes, despite a ceasefire signed in March.
This latest airstrike is deeply concerning because it reached what has long been considered a safe part of Idlib. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians fled to the area during the latest military offensive thinking the violence would not reach them there.
Hospitals in this area are not used to treating people wounded by airstrikes. MSF has already donated a surgical kit containing supplies for 50 surgeries to a separate health facility that received 90 injured patients.
Friend, this recent escalation of violence puts intense pressure on the fragile health system in Idlib, which has already been weakened by decades of conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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