‘Many lives could have been saved if people acted sooner’ says doctor working in Syrian hospital

'It looks like death and suffering is a normal life here.' Dr Mufaddal Hamadeh, who has been treating the injured in Idlib Central Hospital, tells cathynewman about a 7-year-old survivor who told him 'I want to be a doctor. I could’ve saved my parents.'

We speak to Dr Mufaddal Hamadeh – the former president of the Syrian American Medical Society who has been treating the injured in Idlib Central Hospital.

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