Repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, Syrian doctors feel abandoned
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Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2016 · News & Politics
In Syria’s ongoing war, doctors are under attack in the very places they expect to be safe: their hospitals. Last week, pro-government forces bombed a maternity hospital in the northwestern city of Idlib -- just one of the more than 375 strikes on medical facilities since the revolution began, according to Physicians for Human Rights. Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs reports.
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