Doctors from Qatar, US work to save quake survivors in NW Syria
Al JazeeraIdlib, Syria – International medical aid for northwestern Syria was held up for days after last week’s major earthquakes, but teams of foreign doctors are now working in opposition-held areas and have performed hundreds of surgeries as they seek to keep survivors alive. “We came with 25 other doctors, nurses and technicians who specialise in various medical fields such as neurosurgery, orthopaedia, general surgeons, psychiatry and intensive care doctors,” said Mohammad Murshed Delimi, an Iraqi plastic surgeon who lives in Qatar and travelled to the northwestern city of Idlib with the Qatari Red Crescent. “We have performed nearly 250 surgeries since last Sunday, 100 of which were major and complex surgeries, in addition to examining and following up on old injuries,” said Ahmad Ajaj, an intensive care doctor. United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths has acknowledged shortcomings in the response, saying the people of northwestern Syria “rightly feel abandoned” because the assistance they had hoped for had not yet arrived.
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