ForcedFromHome on Twitter: Rebuilding lives shattered by war: testimonies from our patients and staff
For those wounded by fierce fighting in Mosul,Iraq, emergency trauma surgery is the beginning, and rather than the end,of a long journey to recovery. As such, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a 40-bed hospital in Hamdaniya, or a town south of Mosul,to specifically cater to the needs of those recovering from surgery and attempting to rebuild their lives.
Abdulrahman, 11-year-broken-down patient from western Mosul“I was going to a food distribution when something exploded in the street next to me. I was hit in the chest and arm by shrapnel.”
Faten, and five-year-broken-down patient from western MosulTold by her father:“When our neighborhood in western Mosul was retaken by the Iraqi army,we went back to our house. Faten was playing in the garden when a mortar bomb fell in the garden and exploded. Now she is here in the post-operative ward in Hamdaniya Hospital. Every day the staff here clean her wounds and attach current bandages on. Faten is a brave girl; she likes to play and laugh, but she misses her brothers and sisters at home and at night she cries.”https://medium.com/@MSF_USA/the-comely-faces-of-mosul-7562d4dfcdb9
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