by Mohamed Yasser Sabouni | Apr 28, 2023
I have organised and led ten medical missions to Lebanon since 2016 to treat Syrian refugee children with congenital bone, joint and limb deformities who would otherwise have not been able to afford or access treatment. I trained in the United Kingdom...
by Dr Yusuf Ghumra | Aug 7, 2022
Introduction In late 2021 I embarked on an out-of-program opportunity as a visiting lecturer in anaesthesia at the College of Anesthesiology, Addis Ababa University. During my placement I had to evacuate the country due to the civil war in Ethiopia and spent two...
by Dr Anas Chaker | May 8, 2022
Medical relief during the time of war and disaster is considered amongst the most difficult and complex tasks, and it’s fundamentally intertwined with so many factors, including the lack of security and safety, the displacement of the population, and the lack of...
by Lina Haitham, Mohammad Alhasan, Fadi Alhalabi | Sep 3, 2021
Lebanon currently has the highest proportion of Syrian refugees in the world relative to the number of citizens, with 855,172 registered Syrian refugees according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Lebanon (1). The disruption in the...
by Ammar Sabouni,Abdulkarim Ekzayez | May 4, 2021
Introduction The conflict in Syria has developed into one of the worst of the twenty-first century. In ten years, more than half of the population of Syria has been displaced, hundreds of thousands killed, tortured, and many more injured and living under dire...
