A doctor and wounded man were killed Saturday when regime warplanes dropped a chlorine-loaded barrel bomb on Latamaneh hospital in central Hama province, activists and local monitor said.
"The hospital is out of service now," Hama Health Directorate said in statement due toxic gas attack where suffocation cases reported amid lack of medical equipment.
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.
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.
A medical relief advocacy groups says over 100 hospitals in Syria were hit by Syrian or Russian airstrikes last year, urging the "fortification" of medical facilities such as by adding reinforced concrete or blast-resistant windows.
In a 90-page report released Saturday, the International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, or UOSSM, also decries an "alarming scarcity" of specialized care and supplies.
A medical relief advocacy groups says over 100 hospitals in Syria were hit by Syrian or Russian airstrikes last year, urging the "fortification" of medical facilities such as by adding reinforced concrete or blast-resistant windows.
In a 90-page report released Saturday, the International Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, or UOSSM, also decries an "alarming scarcity" of specialized care and supplies.
The report says all 107 hospitals surveyed in December in seven regions were hit at least once by "direct or indirect airstrikes" last year - some as many as 25 times.
Three-quarters of hospitals surveyed were "makeshift hospitals," in buildings not initially designed to provide medical care, because real hospitals were either destroyed or made inoperable
