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Underground hospitals were a staple during World War II, to protect patients and medical personnel from aerial bombardment. Seven decades on, such secret, makeshift health care centers are crucial ...

For two years, from 2016 to 2018, Ballour ran an underground field hospital known as the Cave in her hometown of Eastern Ghouta, near the Syrian capital Damascus.

The underground medical networks sprang up because many residents deemed it too dangerous to travel through government checkpoints to the main provincial hospital in the nearby city of Idlib.

Now, more sophisticated underground hospitals are being built by the Syrian American Medical Society. In the countryside, they're excavating a cave to replace a regional hospital that serves more ...

Holding Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime accountable for war crimes 13:21 "The medical staff was in a state of panic," said Omar Halaq, the director of the hospital in Atareb, also ...

“The ‘cave’ is the system used by medical societies to move hospitals underground after the Russians entered Syria and started using heavy bombs in the cities,” says the 35-year-old Fayyad ...

Syrian refugees and doctors both find it hard to participate in Turkey's medical system—so they've taken health care underground.

Dr Khaled Almilaji head of the Sustainable International Medical Relief Organisation, who spearheaded the project, said: “The underground Avicenna Hospital will offer security to Syrian medical ...

Air strikes hit underground cave hospital near Hama, medical workers accuse government of using bunker-busting bombs. ... Even in a bunker under a mountain, Syrian hospital knocked out by strikes.

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