Orthopedic Doctor Ali Darwish, the latest health worker being killed in regime bombing on medical centers in rebel-held areas.
Darwish died of his wounds after an attack by Chlorine-loaded barrel bombs on Latamna hospital in Hama province on Sunday.
The attack come as regime forces and allied militias press to halt rebels big advances towards Hama who took about a dozen towns and villages and moved to within a few kilometers of the city and its military airbase, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said.
Alaa Mohammed, a lab technician in latamna hospital detail the attack on the hospital: “in early hours of last Saturday’s morning, while the hospital was crowded with wounded civilians and victims, while the operation room kept working till afternoon, when the regime’s warplanes hit the only hospital in area with barrel bombs loaded with unknown kind of poisonous gases”.
For over five years, using of chemical weapons have never been stopped by the Syrian regime that mostly hit civil neighborhoods and medical centers amid blatant blackout by the U.N. and the international community, activists said.
The lab technician added that Dr, al-Darwish insisted on carrying on the operation he was doing for a patient, although gases started to enter the room, then most of the staff in the hospital suffer of signs of suffocation, they were ministered to nearest hospital, and Dr, al-Darwish and his patient were the last to transfer to the hospital, who received the first aid treatment, but his condition was not improving, then he was transferred to bab al-Hawa hospital, but he died in his way there.
Our source mentioned that the hospital staff had warned the doctor of the danger he was under, but he refused to leave his patient under operation and anesthetised, added to that, he was a victim for similar attack in the hospital of Kafer-Zita and refused to leave the patient as well, but he was lucky and escaped the death.
Dr, Ali al-Darwish, 40, graduated from Aleppo university, specialised as an orthopaedist, he’s from the town of Kafer-Zita, which was targeted by the Syrian regime since the beginning of the Syrian revolution. Dr, Ali stayed in his town under bombing and shelling and worked in many hospital in the countryside of Hama and Iddlib, then he returned to work in Latamna hospital after the battle of the countryside of Hama.
He had 3 children, the eldest almost 10, his wife is pregnant and he is the lonely son for his parents, and the only breadwinner for a family of 11.
The Syian regime had last Saturday bombed the hospital of Latamna in the countryside of Hama with poisonous gases, most staff were suffocated, Dr. al-Darwish was in the middle of an operation, he and his patient died, and most staff and paramedics suffered of difficulties in breathing and signs of suffocation due to the high intensity of the poisonous gas and lack of protective masks and oxygen generators.
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