Syria: "at hospitals, security personnel outnumber medical personnel"

This morning’s report from Weekend Edition Saturday discusses, via discussion with a Paris-based of Doctors without Borders, makes clear that the Syrian military is now waiting in force at hospitals, assuming that people seeking medical attention may have been injured by government agents. In response. Doctors With Borders’ affiliates in Syria are trying as best they can to manage with improvised O.R.’s in living room, bedrooms and kitchens. Doctors without Border is trying to get supplies and equipment to this underground medical care network.

More information after NPR posts its transcripts and links.

Blasts Rock Aleppo as Dozens More Are Reported Killed in Syria – NYTimes.com – http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/world/middleeast/blasts-in-aleppo-syria-homs-violence-said-to-continue.html?_r=1&ref=world