‘Mass grave’: Medics appeal for aid at last working hospital in Syria’s Sweida

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.

“It’s not a hospital anymore, it’s a mass grave,” said Rouba, a member of the medical staff at the city’s sole government hospital, weeping as she appealed for aid.

Dr Omar Obeid, who heads the Sweida division at Syria’s Order of Physicians, said the facility has received “more than 400 bodies since…

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

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