Video report by ITV News International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar

A British aid volunteer has filmed 24 hours in a hospital in Aleppo for ITV News to give an insight into what it's like working in dire conditions with the constant threat of being bombed.

Physicians for Human Rights in New York have announced this week is the worst week for hospital attacks in the region since the war began five years ago.

Local reports say airstrikes in the area have increased after a Russian helicopter was shot down, killing all five people on board.

The hospital, which cannot be named or located for security reasons, is just outside of Aleppo near the front line.

The hospital is running out of supplies and the footage shows the chaos of trying to run a hospital in the line of fire with very basic equipment.

Tauqir Sharif, from East London, left Britain to live in Syria and set up a charity - Live Updates from Syria.

He has spent nearly a week volunteering at the hospital and assisting medics.

The footage shows a baby crying hysterically after cutting her hands crawling over broken glass after the windows in her home were blown out by an airstrike.

"The majority of victims suffering are women and children.

"So, it's boiling right now, we've just seen a little girl come in. Thankfully it was a small injury.

"It was a bomb blast that landed a couple of streets away from their home, so all the windows in their house were shattered and she crawled onto the fragments of glass, cutting open her hand."

The footage also shows the panic when it is feared a chlorine attack has been launched.

Doctors rush to evacuate patients - even a man in a very serious condition who he said should not be moved - but Tauqir said there is no other option.

A seriously ill man is moved to make room for the victims of a chemical attack Credit: Live updates from Syria

Tauqir said sometimes they hear the airstrike and prepare for the influx of casualties before they receive a warning.

"We are happy we are providing a service but we are also anxious as so many people are in this one building and we could be hit at any time."

The government siege has blocked off supply routes and aid agencies are calling for action, saying the situation is becoming even more critical on the ground as food stores and medical supplies are running out.

It is feared hospital generators may cut out as power is in short supply.

Tauqir said the doctors are "improvising" as best they can with limited and very basic medical supplies.

This boy may have a serious head injury, but doctors can only perform a basic X-ray. Credit: ITV News

He films a doctor checking over a boy with a suspected head injury - but cannot do a scan as the nearest CT scanner is two hours away.

"Doctors are just going to feel his head, and send him home," Tauqir said.

In the back of an ex-NHS ambulance, donated by a charity, an oxygen cylinder is held onto the wall with bandages.

The former NHS ambulance that was donated by an aid agency. Credit: ITV News

This is the latest in our series of reports filmed by people in and around the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo.

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