Hospital director Nasser, 'a catastrophe, save the sick' - Last hour. The only remaining patients, he explains, are "crowded in the wards" and "in extreme danger" Many of these patients have serious spinal injuries, limb injuries, amputations, brain injuries that have led to cerebral palsy and hemiplegia, he adds.

He launches an appeal to the UN and the Red Cross to "save these sick patients" and hospital workers who were trapped.