dr. sahloul, did you say where people are going now? yoyou are in touch with medical personnel in aleppo. where are people going now to seek medical treatment? >> there are still small medical facilities that are open and treating patients. they are semi-destroyed or partially destroyed. there are some basements of buildings that are doctors are treating their patients. when i was in aleppo, i visited seven medical l facilities. these are hospitals in aleppo before the crisis. a few of them are very small and they do not have the capacity to treat the victims of trauma or victims of chemical weapons -- as we werere seeing in the last few days. in spite of that, they are opening some of their spspaces thatat are not desestroyed to kp accommodating the patients. health care is one essential part thahat keeps a city going. if you destroy every facility were medical facility, that means you're destroying the neighborhoods, destroying the city. that is why it is crucial to keep anything that will keepp providing medical care e to the civilia

dr. . sahloul, i would like to begin with you, to go over what we said in our introduction, namely, the state of hospitals in easternrn aleppo. according to the world health organization, there are no functioning hospitals left in eastern aleppo. you were last on the show in august when you said the situation in aleppo was "10 times worse than hell." could you tell is what you know of the situation in east aleppo today and in particular, the state of medical facilities? >> it is even worse than last time. words at this point do not mean anything. the use of catastrophic or beyond description does not mean anything because we're talking about a city that has 300,000 people, among them 100,000 children, who are trapped with no food oror medical for the pastouour mohs. everyone i is watching with i indifference. we're talking about all hospitals in aleppo right now that have catastrophes of bombings that are destroyed, including the hospital that i was in with my colleagues. itit was a hospital underg