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Hospitals targeted in the Syrian war as the wounded face dwindling options
By CNN Staff
January 10, 2013 -- Updated 1231 GMT (2031 HKT)
(File photo) Syrian rebel fighter is treated at a hospital in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on October 24, 2012
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(CNN) -- It's a double calamity for civilians caught in Syria's bloody war. Those seriously wounded in bombings have a dwindling number of places to get help, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said.
The group detailed the work of one of its teams that traveled to the northern city of Idlib, which had been attacked repeatedly.
"The only medical facility still functioning there is a secretly run clinic, staffed by local people and a few Syrian health workers," the group said in a statement Thursday.
For months, both Doctors Without Borders and Syrian dissidents have reported bombings on public hospitals in opposition-controlled areas.
"As soon as you cross the border, you are vulnerable to aerial bombing by the Syrian air force, even behind battle lines," the group's operations adviser, Fabrice Weissman, told Le Monde.
"Hospitals are at particular risk, as they have become one of the government's preferred targets. As a result, public hospitals are deserted. Temporary field hospitals that do perform surgery tend to be hidden in individual houses and abandoned public facilities or are buried underground. When they are spotted, the doctors change location."
Some Syrian residents are risking their lives to treat the injured.
"People are stepping up to act as nurses or even surgeons because there's simply nobody else to do it," said Dr. Adrien Marteau, a member of the team who worked in Idlib. "Faced with the seriousness of the injuries and the risks involved in evacuating patients, many of the wounded are dying because they are not getting treatment or cannot be evacuated in time."
Adding to the humanitarian nightmare, much of the Idlib area has no electricity, the group said.
And no one knows where the next attack will strike.
"Syrian government forces are bombing towns and villages indiscriminately, endangering the lives of ordinary people," the group said.
Because Doctors Without Borders is prohibited from working on the side of government forces, "we're not able to take an impartial view of the situation," Emergency Operations Manager Dr. Mego Terzian said.
"But what we're witnessing is a real strategy of terror, orchestrated by the Syrian government, against the people of this area," Terzian said.
In other developments:
Another ballistic missile launched inside Syria
NATO detected the launch of an unguided, short-range ballistic missile inside Syria on Wednesday, the alliance said Thursday. It said similar launches also took place January 2 and 3.
The missiles struck northern Syria, and none hit Turkish territory, NATO said.
"The use of such indiscriminate weapons shows utter disregard for the lives of the Syrian people," NATO said in a statement. "It is reckless and we condemn it."
World bodies to tackle fundraising shortages
The United Nations announced a global humanitarian pledging conference set for January 30 in Kuwait.
The conference will address the funding gaps for the Syria Regional Response Plan and the Syria Humanitarian Response Plan, which together seek $1.5 billion to help Syrian refugees as well as those afflicted inside the country, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"So far, only a small percentage of the funding for 2013 has been received, limiting the ability of U.N. agencies and their humanitarian partners to reach people who desperately need help," the humanitarian office said.
Most of the money sought would help support the more than 540,000 refugees who have fled to Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt. Many of those refugees are enduring frigid conditions in tents as a winter storm pounds the Middle East.
More than 60,000 Syrians have been killed in the past 22 months, according to the United Nations. The crisis started in March 2011, when peaceful protesters demanding democracy and reforms were met by a fierce government crackdown, which spiraled into an armed opposition movement and a civil war.
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