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Inside Aleppo's medical nightmare, and why we must act

  • Written by M. Zaher Sahloul, Associate Clinical Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

There are only 30 remaining doctors in Aleppo, and they have been describing an unimaginable situation, some of which I have seen firsthand. They have to perform amputations on children on the floor of their rudimentary emergency rooms without anesthesia or proper sterilization. They are running short on blood products, intravenous fluid,...

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