War damage stops work at major Syrian hospital

Attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo have forced the suspension of activity at one of its two remaining hospitals.

Doctors operating on an injured civilian at a hospital in Aleppo

Attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo have forced the suspension of activity at one of its two remaining hospitals.

The international humanitarian organisation, Medicins Sans Frontieres, says the Al Sakhour hospital has sustained serious damage from rockets and barrel bombs in the past two weeks.

MSF says the hospital had been treating thousands of patients a month in the city of around 400,000 people.

MSF's head of mission in Syria, Carlos Fransisco, told Harriet Conron what forced its closure.

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