Hospitals near the Syrian front line have come under attack and been overwhelmed by severely wounded victims of Russian airstrikes, taking the area’s health system to the verge of collapse, health workers say, The Japan Times reported.French charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), which runs six hospitals in Syria and provides support for another 153 health facilities across the country, said medical workers in the area had been forced to flee for their lives, AFP said.“Azaz district has seen some of the heaviest tolls of this brutal fighting, and yet again we are seeing health care under siege,” said Muskilda Zancada, MSF head of mission, Syria, referring to the area around the main border crossing north of Aleppo, where tens of thousands of civilians have arrived in recent days.A senior U.S. official charged Wednesday that the airstrikes are benefiting ISIS. Kerry and some 20 foreign ministers, including Russia’s Sergei Lavrov, are meeting in Munich on Thursday to try to arrange a cease-fire and humanitarian access to Syrian cities besieged by government forces, Reuters reported.The United Nations has raised the alarm over the fate of hundreds of thousands of civilians who could be trapped without food or medical supplies inside what was once Syria’s largest city if Assad forces succeed in cutting it off.
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