Terrifying scene in 4 days of the besieged Eastern Ghouta, about 3 thousand air and ground strikes, at least 310 martyrs and more than 1550 injured, destruction of 6 medical centers and hospitals

Rif Dimashq province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: as the killing in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus is still ongoing, the death toll is still increasing as well as the number of injured people, amid deteriorated medical and humanitarian conditions in the besieged Ghouta, in which the escalation of bloodshed increases for the fourth day on a row, as if the regime forces want to terminate the besieged people, where the SOHR monitored the warplanes targeting areas in Ein Tarma, Misraba, Arbin, and shelling of barrel bombs by helicopters on areas in Madira, Hamuriyah and Zamlka, and artillery and missile shelling on Al-Asha’ri, Misran and Madira, and the renewed shelling resulted in the martyrdom of 14 citizens including a child and 3 women, and the injury of more than 50 others with different severity, while the death toll is still expected to increase due to the presence of missing people under the rubble caused by the aerial shelling.

It has increased to 310, including 72 children and 45 women, the number of martyrs documented by the SOHR in 72 hours since Sunday evening the 18th of February 2018, as a result of targeting the Eastern Ghouta by about 2965 raids, missiles, explosive barrels and shells, where the warplanes carried out about 420 airstrikes, while the regime’s helicopters dropped more than 140 explosive barrels, and the regime forces shelled the besieged Ghouta by more than 1523 missiles, in conjunction with shelling by about 882 artillery shelling. , and the casualties are: 38 citizens including 4 children were killed in bombardment by helicopters by explosive barrels on Kafr Batna town and airstrikes on Jisrayn town, 128 citizens including 29 children and 16 women were killed on Tuesday, in the shelling on the areas of Nashabiyah, Otaya, Arbin, Zamalka Mesraba, Hamuriya, and Ash’ari, 127 citizens including 34 children and 23 women were killed on Monday, in the aerial and ground bombardment on Hamuriya, Beit Sawa and Saqba, Douma , Mesraba, Otaya, Nashabiyah, Zamalka, Aftries, KafrBatna, Al-Shifonyyah and Jesrin, 17 citizens including 5 children and 3 citizen women were killed on the evening of Sunday, in aerial, missile and artillery bombardments on Saqba, Mesraba, Otaya and Ashari area, and also the shelling has injured about 1550 civilians with varying severity, some of whom are in serious conditions, which may increase the death toll, in addition to the presence of dead bodies under the rubbles caused by the artillery and aerial shelling on the Ghouta, and the heavy shelling  also caused large destruction to the properties of the citizens and the infrastructure,

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a decrease in the chances for the wounded to receive treatment, or even rescue the critical cases, due to the fierce and savage shelling, which deliberately targeted civilian areas, and destructed 5 hospitals and medical points until now, which are: Dar Al-Shifaa Hospital in Hamouriyyah, a medical point in Kafr Batna, Arbin Surgical Hospital in Arbin city, and 2 other hospitals in Saqba, and got them out of service, to decrease the ability of medical capacity even more, and crowd the places with the wounded who flock as a result of intensive and continuous shelling by the regime forces,  led by the Brigadier Suhail Al-Hassan, which paves the way for a wide military operation in the Eastern Ghouta, through which the regime forces aim to regain the control of it, this tragic medical reality comes with the absence of full sections in the Eastern Ghouta as a result of the lack of the specialists, where there is only one doctor for each of the specialties of vascular surgery and neurosurgery, while there are no doctors specialized in internal and heart diseases, while there is one doctor at least for gynecological diseases, who came from the east of the capital Damascus after the regime forces took the control of the neighborhoods of the east of Damascus, and after the only doctor specialized in gynecological diseases was killed during the fighting between Al-Rahman Corps and Jaysh Al-Islam in April 2016, and this tragic reality comes with the shortage of many medicines including antibiotics, antipyretics, and other medicines needed for emergency aid.