Wounded, starving crowd ill-equipped Damascus hospital

GENEVA (Reuters) – Wounded and starving Syrians, many of them women and children, are crowding into Damascus’s main hospital where medical supplies are increasingly short, World Health Organization (WHO) officials told a U.N. news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. As the civil war escalates around the capital, doctors are treating up to 100 injured a day at the 400-bed Damascus Hospital and have had to use local anesthetics even for complicated operations, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said. …