A medic requires care of a newborn Syrian refugee child in the Lebanese town of Arsal. Photograph: Joseph Eid/Getty Photos
Dr Muhammed Selim, 41, Kawergosk camp
Muhammed, a common surgeon from Qamishli, had worked in the Al-Safira district, in the Aleppo governorate, since 2006. He worked at a government hospital in the morning and at his private clinic in the evening.
“Prior to 2011, daily life was happy and function was good,” he says. “I would function hard and after function I would get pleasure from visiting friends all around Aleppo.”
But when conflict started out in rural Aleppo, Muhammed found himself and his clinic in the midst of battle. “My clinic was situated in the vicinity of 3 strategic positions which have been currently being fought more than by numerous groups. I was stuck for eight months, unable to leave my clinic for Aleppo or anyplace else, and there were snipers all close to.
With fighting continuing each and every day, there was an exodus of people leaving Al-Safira. Muhammed managed to escape with his lifestyle, underneath fire, in January 2014. He recalls a extended and perilous journey via Ar-Raqqah and Al-Hasakah, passing many checkpoints at which he had to hide his Kurdish identity, right up until he reached Qamishli. From there, he tried to cross the border to Iraq 3 instances, but it was closed. He then endured an eleven-hour journey on foot by means of mountains and valleys from Qamishli to another portion of the border, in which he was lastly able to leave Syria.
Soon after settling in the Darashakran refugee camp, Muhammed worked as a painter for two weeks. But a likelihood encounter with Médecins Sans Frontières expat staff would be a turning point for him.
Following a written check and interview, Muhammed began operate as a basic physician in the close by Kawergosk camp. “Function is very good,” he says. “I am really happy to be functioning in my area, with all my energy. The men and women here are satisfied with our support, specifically that I share their language and dialect. I know about their struggling and their way of contemplating. Often the only treatment they need to have is through phrases, not drugs.”
Muhammed nonetheless lives in the Darashakran camp, commuting every single day to Kawergosk, 10km away. Regardless of escaping with his life and continuing to offer health care care to his fellow Syrian refugees, Muhammed nonetheless struggles with his conscience. “Even to this moment I have feelings of guilt that I left Syria. Continuing to function here is some consolation, but sometimes I tell myself that I need to have served my individuals better and stayed even if I was killed. Perhaps I could have fulfilled my duty far better.”
Dr Media Rasheed, 28, Darashakran camp
Possessing graduated from Damascus University in 2009, Media was in her fourth 12 months of specialisation in haematology when she had to end and leave the country.
Media’s family had currently fled Damascus, although she had stayed behind, determined to comprehensive her training. But her household convinced her that there was significant danger to her daily life and safety if she stayed, and so she left for Erbil in June 2013.
Right after hunting for work for six months, Media commenced functioning for Médecins Sans Frontières as a standard physician, very first in Kawergosk camp and then in Darashakran, the place she sees all around 50 patients a day.
“As a Syrian medical doctor operating in a Syrian refugee camp my connection with the individuals is not restricted to being a doctor. Some sufferers just want to speak. I pay attention to their stories of struggling and truly feel their soreness, particularly individuals escaping the conflict in rural Damascus and Aleppo. 1 of the stories that affected me the most was of a Syrian lady who lost her husband following hefty shelling in Aleppo, and did not have the chance to say goodbye or bury him ahead of fleeing.
“I often come to feel guilty for leaving my country, as we physicians have pledged not to depart in times of war, but the security circumstance left us no decision. The day the war ends I will return to Syria.”
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A bitter pill: Syrian refugee medical doctors share their stories
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