(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jordan's Professional Association will set up a field hospital at the border as influx of Syrian displaced continue due to the ongoing offensive by regime and allied militias.
Ali al-Obous, head of the association's council told Zaman al-Wasl the Union of Jordanian syndicate agreed on Tuesday to build the hospital with participation of 200 medical staff and doctors. The Engineers Union will make the infrastructure, he added.
The association took the decision after four hospitals in Syria's Daraa went out of service in light of the ongoing military operation.
"The association decided to open the door for donations as well to provide aid to the displaced Syrians near the borders," he added.
Jordanians from across the country's regime started collecting medical supplies, donations and food to be sent to the displaced Syrians inside the Syrian territory.
The fighting and air strikes have already driven around 320,000 people from their homes, including 60,000 in camps along the border with Jordan, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Thursday. The Observatory said 150 civilians have been killed.
Also Tuesday, Field Medicine Director Salem Zawahreh said that 43 displaced Syrians have been allowed entry to the kingdom and sent to public hospitals to receive medical treatment.
In a statement, Zawahreh indicated that these people, who suffer from injuries, fractures, burns, chronic diarrhea in addition to childbirths, were admitted due to their difficult conditions, Xinhua news agency reported.
He added that people with light injuries are treated on the Jordan-Syria border and then return to Syrian territory.
A family of six members, four children and two women, has been killed in Russian airstrikes on southern town of Saida on Thursday, rescuing Civil Defense agency said.
Dark clouds of smoke rose over rebel-held areas in Daraa province on Thursday.
Bashar al-Assad aims to recapture the entire southwest including the frontiers with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Jordan. The area is one of the last rebel strongholds in Syria after more than seven years of war.
Meanwhile, Jordan's mediation has succeeded in getting rebel negotiators back to the table with Russian officers over a final deal that ends the fighting and brings state control over Daraa province, a Syrian opposition spokesman said.
Ibrahim al Jabawi told Reuters the two sides were expected to hold talks later this evening in the southern town of Busra al Sham that has already seen four rounds of talks since Saturday that have so far failed to bring any agreement.
Rebel officials say the main differences focus is on whether the rebels surrender their weapons in one go or in phases before handing over their areas to state control under Russian military police supervision.
After four days of reduced bombardment, intense air strikes resumed on Wednesday following the collapse of talks between insurgent groups and Russian officers that were brokered by Jordan.
"The Russians have not stopped the bombardment," Bashar al-Zoubi, a prominent rebel leader in southern Syria, told Reuters in a text message from the Deraa area, the focus of the regime offensive so far. "The regime is trying to advance and the clashes are continuing."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, monitoring the war through many sources on the ground, said there had been 600 air strikes in 15 hours extending into Thursday's early hours.
The two-week offensive, backed by massive Russian air power, has taken a large chunk of rebel territory northeast of the provincial capital of Daraa, as a string of towns surrendered. (Zaman Al Wasl, Agencies)
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