Inside Syria: Make-shift hospitals treat rebels - CBS News
But CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward managed to slip into Syria with a camera. She reports on how the rebels cope with casualties from street battles they fight with the Syrian Army. They cannot show their faces, and they risked their lives to speak with CBS News.
(Scroll down to watch Clarissa Ward's first two reports from Syria)
DAMASCUS - As an opposition activist, Abu Ahmed spends a lot of time underground. In the basement of a building on the outskirts of Damascus, he led us into a secret passage carefully camouflaged in a corner.
Inside, boxes are stuffed with life-saving medical supplies like penicillin, surgical gloves and perhaps more ominously, a skin stapler.
Video shot by opposition activists show how day after day, Syria's protestors are shot and beaten by President Assad's security forces.
CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward was taken to a make-shift hospital in a Damascus suburb. One doctor explained that going to a government-run hospital is too dangerous.
"There have been many cases where injured people were arrested or even taken out of operating rooms mid-surgery," he said. "Sometimes they kill the wounded." [read more at link]
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