SUPPORT SYRIA’S HEROIC DOCTORS

Help them save lives in the most dangerous place on earth

In Syria, hospitals have become targets and are being used as a tactical weapon of war. As medics come under fire in the most dangerous place on earth, we are coming together to support their lifesaving work.

Last month the only children’s hospital left in besieged East Aleppo was bombed out of existence. It was struck by missiles as the medical workers were treating children suffering from a chlorine attack. This hospital has been attacked before but every time the amazing staff have rebuilt it. This time, judging it too dangerous and without the supplies to rebuild the hospital was closed for good.

Now by coming together we can get these heroic doctors and nurses the equipment they need to open an entirely new children’s hospital in the nearby countryside. We’re sending a People’s Convoy to the country on December 17th stocked with medical supplies which can save lives immediately and a message that ‘we the people of the world stand with Syria’s lifesavers’.

A similar convoy is being organised in France to equip clinics in Aleppo. You can read more about it HERE.

By raising £91,432 we can outfit an entire children’s hospital. We know it’s easy to feel powerless, but this is something you can do that can make a real difference.

NEVER GIVING UP ON LIFE

The doctors under fire for saving lives

This is an emergency. Syria’s medical workers and hospitals are being systematically targeted because they are saving lives.

When the bombs fall, the wounded and dying are rushed to makeshift hospitals in caves, basements, and even living rooms. In these unlikely beacons of hope, doctors operating by the light of cellphones, using rudimentary equipment and insufficient medicine, manage to save lives everyday.

Against all odds, Doctors and medics work around the clock often not sleeping for days. Many live in the hospitals, sleeping in storage rooms, side by side with colleagues, only seeing their families after weeks of work.

Since Syria’s peaceful uprising was met with brutal force doctors have been systematically targeted as a tactical weapon of war. It has become apparent that anyone treating ordinary people on ‘the other side’ of their political view has become a valid target and their elimination is part of a deliberate strategy to take greater control.

More than three-quarters of Syrian doctors have fled since 2011. Those that remain have chosen to stay to serve, believing it their duty to save lives, even though it means risking theirs as hospitals are targets of daily airstrikes.

What’s happening in Syria is an unprecedented attack on hospitals, health workers, and the principle of medical neutrality in the history of the modern world. Syria’s heroic doctors and medical workers are doing all they can to save lives,but unless the world protects them from being targeted, there is a very real chance that soon there will be no doctors or medical workers left.

While Governments fail to act to protect them, people around the world can help make sure their lifesaving work continues. Please give what you can and help support Syria’s heroes.