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Pride and pain as Mosul doctors treat their own
ATHBAH, Iraq: Every time a patient is stretchered into the Athbah field hospital south of Mosul, doctor Sultan prays it isn’t his sister or brother.
Most of the medical staff is from the war-torn Iraqi city and each one of the victims they treat could be a relative or a neighbour. "It’s very painful for us... Many people, many children, need amputations or will remain paralysed," he says from the small field hospital set up in Athbah, just a few miles south of Mosul. Sultan, who chose **t divulge his full name, fled Mosul when the Islamic State still controlled the city, which they made the de facto Iraqi capital of their **w crumbling "caliphate". But his siblings are trapped inside, in neighbourhoods of Mosul’s west bank still held by the Jihadists despite almost six months of fighting by the security forces to retake the city. "I have ** news," he said. "Daesh (IS) uses civilians as human shields and many buildings have been levelled by air strikes. They might be lying under the rubble and I don’t k**w about it." For **w, the 43-year-old is treating a man in his forties with facial injuries. "He’s stable," he says, after feeling the pulse in the patient’s bloodied wrist. In the same room, Faruq Abdulkader is treating a teenager who is writhing in pain but was relatively lucky: "The bullet went straight through the arm without touching the bone," the doctor said, relieved. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Pride and pain as Mosul doctors treat their own || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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