![]() ![]() Sir Bob Geldof enlisted the help of Sir Richard Branson in a plan to airlift children wounded in war-ravaged Syria to Britain for medical treatment. Some had already been operated on and had limbs amputated.īob Geldof failed in his attempt to get wounded children airlifted out of Syria ![]() On the night I first saw Maram, I encountered other children who had been injured in the same attack. I often wonder what life was like for Maram and her family when Aleppo, the most benighted city on earth, was relentlessly pounded by bombs from above. She also had a pin in her femur and another in her tibia, and she had a really big gap of leg bone missing from the explosion. I worked delicately around the open compound fracture Maram had suffered in her left leg.Ĭorrectly in my opinion, the surgeon who had operated on her in Aleppo had applied an external fixator, but this was so big and heavy that Maram couldn't move her leg when she was awake. The whole hospital stank of the bacteria that had caused her infections, and those in other patients. I operated on December 21, carefully debriding Maram's wounds and removing the decaying tissue inside her. Dr David Nott with an injured child, Maram, in Syria after being evacuated from the city of Aleppo in the days before Christmasīut precise thought was difficult as I felt myself experiencing the same sort of emotions that any father would have towards a wounded child. ![]()
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