A girls is seen in an ambulance during medical evacuation from the besieged town of Douma, eastern Ghouta to Damascus, Syria December 26, 2017. Picture taken December 26, 2017. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Months of deadlock over medical evacuations from Syria's biggest remaining siege broke late on Tuesday when a deal between Damascus and a rebel faction allowed the Red Crescent to evacuate a handful of critically ill patients.
Four patients were evacuated from eastern Ghouta, where almost 400,000 people have been under siege by President Bashar al-Assad's forces since 2013, the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) said in a statement. The evacuees were taken to hospitals in Damascus.
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