Orient Net, Mar 1, 2018— More than 1,100 people are in urgent need of immediate “life-saving evacuations” from Eastern Ghouta, where 11 days of bombing have killed hundreds, an aid coalition that funds Syrian hospitals warned on Thursday (March 1).

According to the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM), two hospitals have been bombed since Saturday despite a nationwide ceasefire, leaving only about 20 health facilities partially functioning.

Russia, a strong ally of Bashar Assad, has called on Monday for daily five-hour humanitarian corridors to allow aid in and to facilitate evacuations, a move that the UOSSM deemed “cynical.”

Some 400,000 people are trapped in the besieged opposition-held enclave, a swath of towns and farms outside Damascus.

Civilians have consequently been finding shelter in caves, while hospitals have been left without enough surgical equipment to treat patients wounded in bombings.