Leaked video shows patients tortured by medical staff in Syrian military hospital
Monday, 05 March 2012
A wounded patient is shackled to his bed in the Homs military hospital. (Photo courtesy of Channel 4 News)
A worker at the hospital covertly shot the video and leaked it to the British television broadcaster Channel 4 News.
The footage from the Homs military hospital showed wounded patients blindfolded and shackled to their beds with marks of torture on their bodies. Some instruments of torture, including a rubber whip and electrical cable, appear on a table in one of the hospital wards.
Human rights activists and medical professionals told Channel 4 they consider the deliberate infliction of pain on patients by hospital staff as “a gross breach of medical ethics.”
The Syrian government has ordered that all those shot or injured in protests in Homs must be brought to the military hospital for treatment.
The horrific images raise concerns about the fate of the hundreds of wounded civilians from the battered district of Baba Amro, the rebel enclave in Homs that succumbed to month of artillery and tank bombardment.
The hospital worker who released the footage said he attempted several times to stop what he called “the shameful things” that were taking place in the Homs military hospital but was branded a “traitor.” He was interviewed in a safe location.
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