Middle East

Medical supplies scarce in Syria's Hama

Medics struggle to treat injured in underground makeshift clinics with little medicine and few doctors.
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2013 15:47

There is a severe shortage of medicine and doctors in the Syrian city of Hama. The hospitals have either been bombed by President Bashar al-Assad's army or transformed into bases for rebel fighters. 
 
People injured in fighting are brought to makeshift treatment rooms, set up in people’s homes and basements. 
 
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reports.

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