Dr Murhaf: 'We need to know more about surgery for war zone children'
"There was a lot of fear. When you're lying there on the ground and a certain amount of blood has been chucked out of your body - the cold that sets in is quite terrifying. That sort of thing you can never prepare for."He struggles to comprehend the effect a bomb blast would have on a child - especially those too young to understand what is going on.
Dr Murhaf - one of the few surgeons left working in Idlib province in Syria - describes living in that region as"chaos", and akin to"hell". Saed now wears prosthetics, and is currently undergoing an adjustment for a newly constructed socket for his limb, the clinic's medical director, Dr Malik, explains.
"So we want to be able to help them get across that first moment of panic, the first moment of fear, the first moment of worry," she says."Abdel" - not his real name - was just nine when he lost a leg in an air strike in Syria.
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