My experience there was the most difficult I'd ever experienced.
I entered Ghazi on April 3rd, which was about two
days after the World Central Kitchen incident happened.
There's always something to do.
There's always someone that needs help.
Majority of of the patients that we saw were women
and young children.
We were operating and providing medical aid in an environment
where we ourselves had very limited food with very limited
water.
We couldn't go to sleep at night because there was
this constant bombs that were occurring.
Nothing that you really needed was available.
There wasn't available antibiotics, fluids, pain medication, anesthesia, seeing so
much death, destruction, children with amputated arms, legs.
You just didn't really have enough time to process it
there because if you had maybe a minute or two
to cry, you had to get ready to see the
next patient coming in.
We had a 12 year old who came in.
Both legs were amputated from an explosion.
The kid was suffering severe burns, arteries were bleeding all
over.
He was losing a lot of blood.
He had to endure that surgery with very little anesthesia.
Trying to explain to a little boy that you are
using a saw through his bone and that you can't
justify why you can't put him to sleep or take
away the pain is very difficult.
What tops it off and makes it even more difficult
is traditionally in the West, when we finish surgery on
a kid, you go to the recovery room after a
little bit.
You have parents who can come and pick up the
kid.
There was no one there to pick up these kids
after surgery.
Sometimes you'd get lucky, An uncle would come, sometimes a
neighbor would come, but often times no one would.
That's just not something any of us really expected.
I would.
I would go back tomorrow if I had the chance
to.
Me and the rest of my team would go back
if you had the opportunity to go.
We're always telling people that we invite anyone and everyone
to come with us to visit any world leader.
Come with us to visit and see what it's like
over there.
Smell, Hear.
Feel the ground shaking when bombs are coming.