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Medical Workers Increasingly at Risk in Syria's Idlib

Nisan Ahmado

   Rami Fares was carrying out his daily tasks as a medical worker at a
   local hospital in a rebel-held town near Idlib city in northwest
   Syriawhen several airstrikes and missiles hit the town.
   As he was trying to call his family to make sure they survived the
   deadly raid, Fares' workplace, Kafr Nabl Surgical Hospital, was
   targeted as well.
   "Airstrikes hitting the hospital lasted for about an hour," Fares, 30,
   told VOA, recalling the June attack, reportedly carried out by Syrian
   government warplaneson the town of Kafr Nabl, 50 kilometers south of
   Idlib.
   "The hardest strike was when a barrel bomb hit the entrance of the
   hospital and the pressure of the explosion threw me to the floor. We
   had to evacuate the hospital that day," he said.
   Because the hospital had been built underground to protect patients
   from heavy bombings, no one was killed in that attack.

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