BBC Outlook | ”Aleppo Doctor: It Could Have Been Me”
[vc_row][vc_column][helpme_fancy_text highlight_color=”#ffffff” font_family=”none” align=”justify”] (BBC) In the midst of the Syrian war, Dr Hatem is a paediatrician working in the rebel-held part of the city of Aleppo. He describes a trip he made to Turkey in April that had agonising repercussions. Full radio program below: [/helpme_fancy_text][vc_single_image image=”4260″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p040kt4y”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
ISIS Advance Threatening Camps and Operations
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Blog | Dr. Samir Moussa’s clinics in the camps
My job is to manage IDA’s health clinics in Northern Aleppo. I leave my home in Kilis in Turkey at 7:30 am and cross the border into Syria. I arrive at my workplace – the IDP camps – an hour later, and throughout the day I move from camp to camp to follow up on the medical cases. I […]
Blog | The long road to Aleppo
It’s 1pm, and a truckload of supplies enters from Turkey into the hands of our logistics team waiting at the other side of the Bab Al Hawa crossing point. It’s a big day – medical equipment, like incubator parts, are about to be delivered to the last Children’s Hospital in Aleppo. We hit the road, […]
The bombing of Al Quds and the failed ceasefire
As doctors working on the frontlines of the war in Aleppo, we viewed the cessation of hostilities that was brokered in February with scepticism. Over the last week, our worst fears were driven home in the most horrific circumstances. The city is bleeding. On Wednesday, Syrian or Russian jets bombed the Al Quds hospital in […]
Syrians Appeal for Civilian Protection As Aleppo Comes Under Attack
“We are being left to die as the world watches.” The people of Aleppo need the international community’s protection. In the past week, the Assad regime and its allies have escalated their bombings of civilian homes and hospitals across Aleppo, killing more than 200 civilians in the process. We, as representatives of Syrian civil society […]
Dr. Hatem’s letter from Aleppo
Following the death of our colleague Dr. Maaz in an airstrike on Al Quds Hospital on April 28th, Dr. Hatem, fellow pediatrician, friend of Dr. Maaz and the Director of IDA’s Children’s Hospital in Aleppo wrote a moving tribute and appeal to the world about the declining situation in Aleppo, published on The Syria Campaign. The letter has reached […]
Dr. Wassim Maaz and patients killed in Aleppo hospital bombing
“What happened last night in the city of Aleppo broke our hearts as we lost our highly esteemed Dr. Muhammad Wassim Maaz, the Medical Director of the Pediatric Hospital in Aleppo that is supported by Independent Doctors Association. He devoted many services to the children of the city of Aleppo. Dr. Maaz was martyred due […]
BaharTurk | Dr. Mahmoud reaches out to the Turkish community
In Turkish – Dr. Mahmoud joined BaharTürk Televizyonu on their daily talk show live from Gaziantep to discuss the general medical situation in Northern Syria, and how we work as a cross-border organisation to ensure medical services reach the most vulnerable war-affected populations in the region.
Condolences for Dr. Hasan al-Ara’aj, Head of the Health Directorate in Hama
